From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 08:01:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0561716A404 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:01:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (7-137-58-66.gci.net [66.58.137.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D29E13C483 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:01:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE5E7DFD; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:01:56 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: FreeBSD Port Maintainer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:01:52 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <42b497160703302141u617afb24u1b9235bfcd909b45@mail.gmail.com> <200703302347.11364.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <200703302347.11364.beech@alaskaparadise.com> X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&BrP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?utf-8?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>; 27NO; C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?utf-8?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703310001.54158.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: Kimi Ostro Subject: Re: Ports maintainer or adopting a port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beech@alaskaparadise.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:01:58 -0000 On Friday 30 March 2007, Beech Rintoul said: > 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/i >ndex.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?? I forgot to mention you can go to http://www.freshports.org and do a search on maintainer ports@freebsd.org. That will list all 4283 of the unmaintained ports. Take your pick and go for it. :-) > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------