Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:15:15 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: ports-developers@freebsd.org, Dennis Herrmann <dhn@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drop Maintainership, need help Message-ID: <539C58F3.6060104@daemonic.se> In-Reply-To: <730194.85336.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <730194.85336.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On 06/13/14 06:06, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Dennis, you have an awful lot of ports to maintain. > > I've never maintained a port so far but am interested in x11-wm/ratpoison if it hasn't already been taken. > > I built it from ports, notice upstream version is now up to 1.4.7, rarely use it but would like to see how such a minimalist window manager works. > > Maybe have an xterm in one window running "pinfo ratpoison" so the reference manual is close at hand. > Go for it! Grabbing and maintaining a port is a great way so start contributing to the FreeBSD project. The community will help you if you have any questions, and there's also the porters handbook which documents most aspects of the ports tree. Regards! -- Niclas Zeising
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