Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 21:54:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> To: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port maintainership of alpine? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405242146370.59492@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20140524194346.GH2341@home.opsec.eu> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405242117050.59492@localhost> <20140524194346.GH2341@home.opsec.eu>
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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
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