Re: Ports maintainer or adopting a port

On Friday 30 March 2007, Beech Rintoul said:
On Friday 30 March 2007, Kimi Ostro said:
Hello list

Not sure if this is appropriate for this list, basically I am
looking to hear from past, current and future ports maintainers:

is it fun? what are the requirements? (besides time) what does it
mean to you? do you recommend it? best way to get started? what
do I need to know about FreeBSD & Ports?

The first thing you should do is to subscribe to freebsd-ports@
mailing list.

Next you should read the Porter's Handbook and become very familiar
with it. Just about everything you need to know is in there.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/i
ndex.html

I am looking at adopting a port or two and looking to gain more
insight, maybe someone that can do projects page for ports? which
holds a list of unmaintained ports??

I forgot to mention you can go to http://www.freshports.org and do a
search on maintainer ports@xxxxxxxxxxxx That will list all 4283 of
the unmaintained ports. Take your pick and go for it. :-)


Here is a list of broken ports with no maintainer:

http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/ports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You can also adopt any port that the maintainer is listed as ports@

Have fun,

Beech



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