From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 19:54:41 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1D4AF1 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 19:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90E40286E for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 19:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yokozuna.lan (a83-160-85-125.adsl.xs4all.nl [83.160.85.125]) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s4OJscnK047958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 24 May 2014 21:54:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbeis@xs4all.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yokozuna.lan (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s4OJsbnT025453; Sat, 24 May 2014 21:54:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbeis@xs4all.nl) Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 21:54:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen Sender: marco@yokozuna.lan Reply-To: Marco Beishuizen To: Kurt Jaeger Subject: Re: port maintainership of alpine? In-Reply-To: <20140524194346.GH2341@home.opsec.eu> Message-ID: References: <20140524194346.GH2341@home.opsec.eu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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 19:54:42 -0000 On Sat, 24 May 2014, the wise Kurt Jaeger wrote: >> 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 ? Other than building ports, no. I don't have an IT background, but a finance and legal background so that's not helping me here :-). >> 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. The version in ports is old but alpine is still being developed and currently at version 2.11. > Given the deadline for non-staged ports, it looks like a tight race. I know so that is why I'm interested. -- Have no friends not equal to yourself. -- Confucius