local ports

[Sahil Tandon]

On Fri, 03 Jul 2009, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

> Note: If I am the unofficial co-maintainer of a port (devel/aegis) [i.e.  
> it was added at my request by the maintainer because at the time I  
> didn't know how to make a proper port and have the email transcript to  
> prove it) and my co-maintainer has timed out on a update request  
> (unoffical) how do I a) make the change and get it committed and b) take  
> maintainership?

Make the desired changes and also replace the maintainer's address with yours
in the port's Makefile.  Then submit the diff as a PR.  See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html
http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>