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From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:06:31PM -0600, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> Now if you really want to become a ports commiter, you will need to
> ask portmgr for the task.

Well, technically, the process in all of FreeBSD is that an existing
committer must nominate someone to be a new committer and offer to mentor
them initially.

mcl