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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2000 00:07:49 -0600
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jeremy@external.org>
To:        Jonathan Pennington <john@coastalgeology.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unfetchable distfiles reminder
Message-ID:  <20001223000748.D89514@external.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001223000310.B65117@coastalgeology.org>; from john@coastalgeology.org on Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:03:10AM -0500
References:  <200012211800.eBLI0FC87639@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001223000310.B65117@coastalgeology.org>

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On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:03:10AM -0500, Jonathan Pennington wrote:
> * fenner@FreeBSD.org <fenner@FreeBSD.org> [001221 13:26]:
> > Since no one is responsible for these ports, the problem won't get
> > fixed unless someone on this list takes the initiative.
> 
> How do we volunteer to take unmaintained ports over. I'm porting a

Just submit an update via send-pr and request that the Maintainer be
changed.

> couple of geology apps right now, and there are two or three

This brings up something that I think should be addressed, and that's
the absense of a science category that would hold everything that's
currently in biology and any other science, or at least be a virtual
category.

> unmaintained ports that are actually (recommended|required) for what
> I'm doing. I'd be happy to maintain them from here on out. None are
> listed as bad, but it'll reduce the total number of unmaintained ports
> at the least.

Great.
 
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