From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 12:30:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659E416A4CF for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:30:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from endif.cjb.net (65-101-231-137.dnvr.qwest.net [65.101.231.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 643C743D5A for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:30:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from end@endif.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 21145 invoked by uid 0); 17 Aug 2004 12:30:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO rogue) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Aug 2004 12:30:14 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 06:30:14 -0600 From: Robin Schoonover To: Alain Buret In-Reply-To: <4121F221.1040304@fosdem.org> References: <4121F221.1040304@fosdem.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20040817123015.643C743D5A@mx1.FreeBSD.org> cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Port's author X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:30:25 -0000 On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:55:13 +0200, Alain Buret wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to know who "invented" the BSD port, or who is the person > that maintain it. Information is requested for maybe inviting him/her at > FOSDEM 2005. > On the top of /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk: # bsd.port.mk - 940820 Jordan K. Hubbard. So my guess is Jordan Hubbard first created it. For the most part I don't think one person maintains ports itself as such. Those who -are- in charge of maintaining it are portmgr: Satoshi Asami, Kris Kennaway, Maxim Sobolev, Steve Price, Will Andrews, Akinori MUSHA, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira, Joe Marcus Clarke The ports themselves also have a seperate maintainer who maintains that specific port (I maintain one such port). Often times a port is not really maintained by anyone, so it is labeled as maintained by ports@. Anyone can volunteer patches for those ports. -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # Your sacrifice puffs up, swelling bigger and bigger, and pops! # -- NetHack