Domain name representations: freshports.org

[grahamperrin]

For consistency, and beautification, please consider changing FreshPorts.org (representations) to lowercase:

• freshports.org

Inconsistencies became noticeable when I looked, in detail (before aiming to redact something), at a daily notification email:

• mixed upper and lowercase From …@FreshPorts.org
• mixed upper and lowercase in three places in the content of the email
• lowercase in all other parts of the content.

Lowercase is true to what's seen in reality. Emphasised here by Firefox:

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Note, this plea relates to freshports.org – the domain – not more broadly to FreshPorts.

The latter, not signifying a domain, is perfect.

Thanks

[dlangille]

In summary, this is about URLs.

Ya know, an example email would be useful here.

Port count: 57881 https://www.freshports.org/categories.php
 New ports:    12 https://www.freshports.org/ports-new.php?interval=today

24 Dec 2022

https://www.freshports.org/audio/tuner/
     Minimalist radio station player

https://www.freshports.org/science/bout++/
     Plasma fluid finite-difference simulation code

I found:

[dev-ingress01 dan ~/scripts] % grep -r 'Port count' *
hourly_stats.pl:        print FILE '<TR><TD><A HREF="/categories.php" TITLE="Number of ports in the database">Port count</A></TD> <TD>'      . $Stats{new}       . '</TD></TR>' . "\n";
report-maintainer-ports.pl: $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/categories.php\n";
report-new-ports.pl:    $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/categories.php\n";
report-notification.pl: $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/categories.php\n";
report-security-notice.pl:  $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/categories.php\n";

It might be better to use the constants provided elsewhere.

[dlangille]

No such constant exists. That's for another day.

[dev-ingress01 dan ~/scripts] % svn di
Index: announce.pl
===================================================================
--- announce.pl (revision 5837)
+++ announce.pl (working copy)
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
 --

 You are receiving this message as part of the service
-you joined at https://www.FreshPorts.org/ but if you no longer
+you joined at https://www.freshports.org/ but if you no longer
 wish to receive such messages, please go to
-https://www.FreshPorts.org/report-subscriptions.php
+https://www.freshports.org/report-subscriptions.php

 If a problem occurs, please send details, including the email
 address in question, to postmaster\@freshports.org
Index: report-maintainer-ports.pl
===================================================================
--- report-maintainer-ports.pl  (revision 5837)
+++ report-maintainer-ports.pl  (working copy)
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@

    my $BodyHeader = '';
    $BodyHeader .= $Announce . "\n"; 
-   $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/categories.php\n";
-   $BodyHeader .= " New ports: " . sprintf("%5u", $NewPorts)  . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/ports-new.php?interval=$Interval\n\n";
+   $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.freshports.org/categories.php\n";
+   $BodyHeader .= " New ports: " . sprintf("%5u", $NewPorts)  . " https://www.freshports.org/ports-new.php?interval=$Interval\n\n";

    my $wrapper = Text::Wrapper->new(columns => 72, body_start => '  ');

Index: report-new-ports.pl
===================================================================
--- report-new-ports.pl (revision 5837)
+++ report-new-ports.pl (working copy)
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@

    my $BodyHeader = '';
    $BodyHeader .= $Announce . "\n"; 
-   $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/categories.php\n";
-   $BodyHeader .= " New ports: " . sprintf("%5u", $NewPorts)  . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/ports-new.php?interval=$Interval\n\n";
+   $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.freshports.org/categories.php\n";
+   $BodyHeader .= " New ports: " . sprintf("%5u", $NewPorts)  . " https://www.freshports.org/ports-new.php?interval=$Interval\n\n";

    $Body = $BodyHeader;
    while ($row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
Index: report-notification.pl
===================================================================
--- report-notification.pl  (revision 5837)
+++ report-notification.pl  (working copy)
@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@

    my $BodyHeader = '';
    $BodyHeader .= $Announce . "\n"; 
-   $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/categories.php\n";
-   $BodyHeader .= " New ports: " . sprintf("%5u", $NewPorts)  . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/ports-new.php?interval=$Interval\n\n";
+   $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.freshports.org/categories.php\n";
+   $BodyHeader .= " New ports: " . sprintf("%5u", $NewPorts)  . " https://www.freshports.org/ports-new.php?interval=$Interval\n\n";

    my $wrapper = Text::Wrapper->new(columns => 72, body_start => '  ');

Index: report-security-notice.pl
===================================================================
--- report-security-notice.pl   (revision 5837)
+++ report-security-notice.pl   (working copy)
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@

    my $BodyHeader = '';
    $BodyHeader .= $Announce . "\n"; 
-   $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/categories.php\n";
-   $BodyHeader .= " New ports: " . sprintf("%5u", $NewPorts)  . " https://www.FreshPorts.org/ports-new.php?interval=$Interval\n\n";
+   $BodyHeader .= "Port count: " . sprintf("%5u", $PortCount) . " https://www.freshports.org/categories.php\n";
+   $BodyHeader .= " New ports: " . sprintf("%5u", $NewPorts)  . " https://www.freshports.org/ports-new.php?interval=$Interval\n\n";

    my $wrapper = Text::Wrapper->new(columns => 72, body_start => '  ');

[dev-ingress01 dan ~/scripts] % 

[dlangille]

Committed revision 5887.

It will be a while before this change hits production.

[grahamperrin]

Sweet. Thanks.

[grahamperrin]

… Ya know, an example email would be useful here. …

I did have one nearly prepared on the 20th, got (heavily) distracted by https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152627, https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85295#c16, https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143095 and the like.

Here, although I doubt that you need it now:

FreshPorts daily notification - main.pdf

[grahamperrin]

In summary, this is about URLs.

…

Committed revision 5887.

Does that cover the From address?

FreshPorts Watch Daemon <FreshPorts-Watch@FreshPorts.org>

Sorry for the disjointed responses.

[dlangille]

It did not cover email addresses. I thought keeping it FreshPorts.org was similar to FreeBSD.org at https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributors/

[grahamperrin]

Thanks.

Until a few days ago, I couldn't think of any organisation other than FreeBSD that used uppercase in this way.

For myself, I avoid it in all contexts other than commit messages, and a handful of other areas where there's strictness (e.g. the .dot files for the graphs under https://wiki.freebsd.org/Developers#Group_Memberships).

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It's lowercase in Return-Path: <FreshPorts-Watch@freshports.org> and so on:

In a nutshell:

• I flinch, mentally, every time I see FreeBSD.org, because it's an oft-seen peculiarity
• I never noticed FreshPorts.org before 20th December, because the daily notification emails are great for speed-reading.

(I looked in detail on the 20th, the email above (PDF), primarily to see how an author's ID was represented. Only then did I notice the uppercase, it's obscure enough to not make me flinch :-))