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Subject: Re: Ports maintainer
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Lowell Gilbert writes:

>  >> >  > 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.
>
>  >  >	I'll get a jump on the process, and nominate
>  >  > www/linuxpluginwrapper.
>  >
>  > 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.

	Call it what you will; it's broken, at least for OSVER >= 7,
and making it work/keeping it working will put the OP on a _lot_ of
people's "thank you!!!!" lists.


				Robert Huff