New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers]

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Thursday, July 28, 2005 16:27:21 -0500 Scot Hetzel 
<swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You wouldn't have to take on an additional challenge if one of the
> dependant ports is broken for a port your creating, what you could do
> is:
>
>   1. if MAINTAINER is not ports@, send a message to the MAINTAINER of the
> port   2. Send a PR for the port with a description of the breakage and a
> build.log containing the error
>   3. Same as 2, but you also correct the problem in the port, and
> include a Patch in the PR
>   4. Same as 3, and also ask to take maintainership if MAINTAINER is
> ports at .   5. Send a message to ports@ to see if anyone else had a problem
> with that port, and a if they have a solution
>
Thanks, Scot.  That's helpful to know.  I wasn't aware, for example, that 
anyone could submit PRs for a broken port.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/