From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 18: 2:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F75837B424 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 18:02:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 86134 invoked by uid 100); 12 May 2001 01:02:17 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15100.35737.310701.932321@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:02:17 -0500 To: "Michael O'Henly" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggesting an application to be added to ports collection... In-Reply-To: <100608933@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael O'Henly types: > Maybe I'm just overlooking it, but I've scanned the Porter's Handbook as well > and I don't see anything here either about proposing apps for porting. > > There is an email address and I could send some mail, but > I figured there would be some sort of policy regarding this since FreeBSD is > largely based on contributions and voluntary efforts. No policy that I know of. Since it's a volunteer effort, it's set up to accept contributions of work, not suggestions for work. You need to find someone to do the port. Asking on ports is a good place. Asking here isn't unreasonable. Since it's a KDE port, you might check other ports of KDE tools - especially things similar to what you've got in mind - via "make -V MAINTAINER" - and see if there's one person who stands out, then contact them directly. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message