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Add more information about Portscout to the porter's handbook.

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</sect1>
<sect1 id="distfile-survey">
<title>The &os; Ports Distfile Scanner</title>
<title>Portscout: The &os; Ports Distfile Scanner</title>
<para>The build cluster is dedicated to building the latest
release of each port with distfiles that have already been
fetched. However, as the Internet continually changes,
distfiles can quickly go missing. The <ulink
url="http://www.portscout.org">FreeBSD Ports distfile
scanner</ulink> attempts to query every download site for
every port to find out if each distfile is still currently
available. Maintainers are asked to check this report
periodically, not only to speed up the building process for
users, but to help avoid wasting bandwidth of the sites that
volunteer to host all these distfiles.</para>
distfiles can quickly go missing. <ulink
url="http://portscout.org">Portscout</ulink>, the &os; Ports
distfile scanner, attempts to query every download site for
every port to find out if each distfile is still available.
<application>Portscout</application> can generate
<acronym>HTML</acronym> reports and send emails about newly
available ports to those who request them. Unless not
otherwise subscribed, maintainers are asked to check
periodically for changes, either by hand or using the
<acronym>RSS</acronym> feed.</para>
<para><application>Portscout</application>'s first page gives
the email address of the port maintainer, the number of ports
the maintainer is responsible for, the number of those ports
with new distfiles, and the percentage of those ports that are
out-of-date. The search function allows for searching by email
address for a specific maintainer, and for selecting whether
or not only out-of-date ports should be shown.</para>
<para>Upon clicking on a maintainer's email address,
a list of all of their ports is displayed, along with port
category, current version number, whether or not there is a new
version, when the port was last updated, and finally when it
was last checked. A search function on this page allows the
user to search for a specific port.</para>
<para>Clicking on a port name in the list displays the
<ulink url="http://freshports.org">FreshPorts</ulink> port
information.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="portsmon">