From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jul 21 5: 8:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk (poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk [146.176.161.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E91837B76D; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 05:08:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk) Received: from artemis (artemis [146.176.161.5]) by poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA21845; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:06:10 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:04:37 +0100 (BST) From: Robin Carey X-Sender: bsc4093@artemis To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <81866.963489033@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:27:10 +0100, Robin Carey wrote: > > > I sent an E-mail to the ports-maintainer a while ago, telling him/her > > what my library was and where to get it (all on the web). > > Nothing happened. > > I don't think you understand how the ports system works. Each port has > its own maintainer. There's no single ports maintainer. The person you > might be thinking of is Satoshi Asami, who's the overall ports manager > and oversees the ports system mechanism itself. he doesn't make the > call to import individual ports. > > If you've created a port that you'd like incorporated, submit it as per > the guidelines in the porter's guide and wait for one of the prots > committers to import it into the ports tree. Ok, I shall try this again when I have available time. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message