From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 29 22:43:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257AA37B41B for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:43:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBU6gEE48105; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:42:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:42:14 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson X-X-Sender: To: Muhannad Asfour Cc: Subject: Re: Port maintainer In-Reply-To: <20011229231906.30935ff3.muhannad07@cogeco.ca> Message-ID: <20011230003840.R46948-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Muhannad Asfour wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Just wondering how I can become a port mainter for a specific port > so I can update it. If anyone has any tips or anything I'd > appreciate it. If the port doesn't currently have a maintainer (i.e., the current maintainer is ports@FreeBSD.org), submit a PR with a patch to change the maintainer (and you'll probably make a committer happy if you also include the patch to upgrade the port ;-) You don't necessarily have to be the port maintainer to submit a patch. You can just submit the PR containing the patch, and have the current maintainer approve it... Probably best is to work something out with the current maintainer beforehand, if there is one... maybe he/she is working on an upgrade already, or has a good reason NOT to upgrade the port. Read the porter's handbook for more information. I think this is all pretty much documented somewhere. - Ryan > Thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message