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From: Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu>
To: Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Maintaining Ports
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:48:09PM +0000, Joe Holden wrote:
> Hello, how would I go about maintaining a port, I'm not currently a 
> committer, however am interested in becoming one.  What is the process 
> required?

The Porter's Handbook[1] covers all you need to get yourself up to speed
on the process.

As for becoming an actual committer it tends to happen after the current
committers notice your consistent and good work.

-- WXS

[1]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/