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Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> writes:

> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:33, Robert Huff wrote:
>> Kevin Brunelle writes:
>> >  On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:43, Miguel Vazquez Gocobachi wrote:
>> >  > I am interesting to be a ports maintainer for FreeBSD project.
>> >  > What need I do?
>> >
>> >  Find a port that needs a maintainer and take over it or find a
>> >  program not in ports and bring it in.
>> >
>> >  There are many ports that need people to maintain them.
>> >  Subscribe to the ports mailing list and you'll see occasional
>> >  posts about ports which are unmaintained and broken.
>>
>> 	I'll get a jump on the process, and nominate
>> www/linuxpluginwrapper.
>>
>>
>> 					Robert Huff
>>
> I second that!

Unfortunately, porting effort isn't what that port really needs.  
Keeping it running the way it worked in the past would be really more
a matter of development effort.

If you are volunteering for that, great!