Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:02:23 +0000 From: Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maintaining Ports Message-ID: <43E8FCCF.5010202@joeholden.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060207215924.560c8bef@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <43E8F979.40004@joeholden.co.uk> <20060207215924.560c8bef@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:48:09 +0000 > Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk> 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 :) > > > Yes, there are quite a few unmaintained ports I'd like to update/patch as relevant, Thanks to everyone who replied, I shall get right onto reading through the handbook. Thanks, Joe
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