From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 19:59:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856BF16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:59:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from garek.tecnik93.com (garek.tecnik93.com [82.76.1.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EB543D45 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:59:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from garek.tecnik93.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by garek.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED8E6144; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:59:25 +0200 (EET) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [192.168.0.10]) by garek.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:59:25 +0200 (EET) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6750D8A; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:59:25 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:59:24 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: joe@joeholden.co.uk Message-ID: <20060207215924.560c8bef@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <43E8F979.40004@joeholden.co.uk> References: <43E8F979.40004@joeholden.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: on buh by ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maintaining Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:59:29 -0000 On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:48:09 +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? You do not need to be a commiter to maintain a port. There are around 4000 unmaintained ports so you can choose one or more of them or you can make a port for something that we don't have in the Ports Collection. The Porters Handbook (/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html) and /usr/ports/Mk/* are your references. As for becoming a commiter, I'll let one of them explain the deep magic involved :) -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"