Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:47:08 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kimi Ostro <kimimeister@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Ports maintainer or adopting a port Message-ID: <200703302347.11364.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <42b497160703302141u617afb24u1b9235bfcd909b45@mail.gmail.com> References: <42b497160703302141u617afb24u1b9235bfcd909b45@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 30 March 2007, Kimi Ostro said: > Hello list > > Not sure if this is appropriate for this list, basically I am > looking to hear from past, current and future ports maintainers: > > is it fun? what are the requirements? (besides time) what does it > mean to you? do you recommend it? best way to get started? what do > I need to know about FreeBSD & Ports? The first thing you should do is to subscribe to freebsd-ports@ mailing list. Next you should read the Porter's Handbook and become very familiar with it. Just about everything you need to know is in there. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html > > I am looking at adopting a port or two and looking to gain more > insight, maybe someone that can do projects page for ports? which > holds a list of unmaintained ports?? Here is a list of broken ports with no maintainer: http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/ports@freebsd.org.html You can also adopt any port that the maintainer is listed as ports@ Have fun, Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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