Number of maintainers vs. number of ports
Marc G. Fournier
scrappy at hub.org
Sat May 27 17:03:19 PDT 2006
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:25:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Nevertheless, I'd still like to see more maintaine{rs,d ports}. We
>> now have a nice document about "what it means to be a maintainer", so
>> I think we should start doing some outreach to bring new people in.
>
> Perhaps we should encourage users to look at the ports they have
> installed that are unmaintained and think about volunteering to maintain
> them?
Some method of making it easier to build a pkg-plist would help also ...
unless I've missed it along the way? I think that that is the part of
updating ports I maintain that I hate the most, and one reason why I avoid
ones that install alot of files :(
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