From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 18:49:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76FAF1065689 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@nuenneri.ch) Received: from mail-fx0-f16.google.com (mail-fx0-f16.google.com [209.85.220.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119E58FC1F for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:49:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@nuenneri.ch) Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so235785fxm.19 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:49:52 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.86.80.17 with SMTP id d17mr331067fgb.48.1234463955274; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:39:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200902121232.30515.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> References: <200902121232.30515.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:39:15 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= To: Thomas Abthorpe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for potential ports maintainers X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:49:54 -0000 On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This topic came up in IRC, and I was encouraged to go out, and find some new > maintainers. > > At any given time, approximately 20 - 25% of all ports are unmaintained. Not > all unmaintained ports need updating, but some do. That is where you folks > come in. > > There are a bunch of you out there who are subscribers to this list (and other > FreeBSD related lists too, I am sure), you have FreeBSD installed and likely > have quite an array of ports installed on this system of yours. You are > subscribed as a means of keeping up with the world of FreeBSD. > > But you have been holding back, thinking "I really would like to do something > to contribute to the success of FreeBSD, but I am not sure what." > > How do I know this? I was one, a silent observer on the mailing lists, and in > on IRC. Then one day, I answered a similar plea, > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2006-May/001065.html. > > I have summarised some details on the wiki on Adopting Ports, > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTasks#head-f018f566bce2ff96ec13fabd536d7cc6dc6f4275. > > The gauntlet has been thrown down, who among you is prepared to pick it up? Ok, I'll take www/libwww, x11/xlockmore, graphics/libexif and graphics/libexif-gtk. None of those needs updating right now so could you simply put my name in as the maintainer? Thanks for _your_ contribution to FreeBSD :) - Marius