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Subject: Re: Maintaining Ports
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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