Ports maintainer or adopting a port

[Beech Rintoul]

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/index.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??

Here is a list of broken ports with no maintainer:

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

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

Have fun,

Beech

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