Ports maintainer or adopting a port

[Beech Rintoul]

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 at freebsd.org. 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@freebsd.org.html
>
> You can also adopt any port that the maintainer is listed as ports@
>
> Have fun,
>
> Beech



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