From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 11:00:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174491065673 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@grem.de) Received: from mail.grem.de (outcast.grem.de [213.239.217.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49A818FC0C for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20825 invoked by uid 89); 6 Oct 2012 11:00:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bsd64.grem.de) (mg@grem.de@80.137.113.155) by mail.grem.de with ESMTPA; 6 Oct 2012 11:00:06 -0000 Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 13:00:05 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20121006130005.07df923d@bsd64.grem.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Taking over maintainership of devel/py-ice, next steps 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: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:00:11 -0000 Hi, After some complications while submitting a patch to devel/py-ice (getting a patch containing UTF-8 characters through the PR system) the maintainer finally managed to apply the patch successfully, but also decided to give up maintainership. Since I'm already managing devel/ice and the two ports work closely together, I offered to take over maintainership. Tony (the maintainer) wrote "Ok this all worked fine so can commit and make yourself maintainer, thanks!" ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/171645#reply9 ) I'm not the maintainer yet and I don't hold any commit bits, so I don't think I can do any of these things myself. So what is the exact process at this point? I understand how this works for abandoned ports, but this is new to me and I couldn't find anything about such a process in the Porter's Handbook[1], Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection[2] or Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports[3]. Thanks, Michael 1. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html 2. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/article.html 3. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html -- Michael Gmelin