From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 19:43:47 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86E3EEB7 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 19:43:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.opsec.eu (home.opsec.eu [IPv6:2001:14f8:200::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4547427C7 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 19:43:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pi by home.opsec.eu with local (Exim 4.82 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1WoHr8-0008px-Oh; Sat, 24 May 2014 21:43:46 +0200 Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 21:43:46 +0200 From: Kurt Jaeger To: Marco Beishuizen Subject: Re: port maintainership of alpine? Message-ID: <20140524194346.GH2341@home.opsec.eu> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 19:43:47 -0000 Hi! > My favorite mailer alpine has no port maintainer at the moment. Ports > that have no maintainer and/or staging are at risk of being deleted from > the portstree, and alpine is a port that I would definitely miss. > > So I was thinking of becoming a port maintainer. Although I'm using > FreeBSD for 15 years now, I have no programming experience at all. Do you have experience building software ? What is your background ? > So my first question is if it is possible for someone like me to become a > maintainer for a port like alpine, or should I learn programming in C > first? Learning 'make' would probably more important to maintain the port. Given that the latest alpine release was around 2008, it looks like this software is not maintained even upstream! For this, you will definitly need C skills. Given the deadline for non-staged ports, it looks like a tight race. -- pi@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 6 years to go !