Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:39:15 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch> To: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for potential ports maintainers Message-ID: <b649e5e0902121039u6da55c8n4156e47b9d203d5d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200902121232.30515.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> References: <200902121232.30515.tabthorpe@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This topic came up in IRC, and I was encouraged to go out, and find some new > maintainers. > > At any given time, approximately 20 - 25% of all ports are unmaintained. Not > all unmaintained ports need updating, but some do. That is where you folks > come in. > > There are a bunch of you out there who are subscribers to this list (and other > FreeBSD related lists too, I am sure), you have FreeBSD installed and likely > have quite an array of ports installed on this system of yours. You are > subscribed as a means of keeping up with the world of FreeBSD. > > But you have been holding back, thinking "I really would like to do something > to contribute to the success of FreeBSD, but I am not sure what." > > How do I know this? I was one, a silent observer on the mailing lists, and in > on IRC. Then one day, I answered a similar plea, > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2006-May/001065.html. > > I have summarised some details on the wiki on Adopting Ports, > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTasks#head-f018f566bce2ff96ec13fabd536d7cc6dc6f4275. > > The gauntlet has been thrown down, who among you is prepared to pick it up? Ok, I'll take www/libwww, x11/xlockmore, graphics/libexif and graphics/libexif-gtk. None of those needs updating right now so could you simply put my name in as the maintainer? Thanks for _your_ contribution to FreeBSD :) - Marius
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