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Thomas Abthorpe (Thu 02/12/09 12:32):
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> 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?
> 
> 
> Thomas

I can take pacpl and it's dependencies:

	audio/pacpl
	audio/kexis
	audio/p5-Audio-Musepack
	audio/laudio
	audio/lpac
	audio/optimfrog
	audio/gsm

Zach