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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:45:52 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports maintainer
Message-ID:  <17736.53056.84063.885197@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <44odrrgnxu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <4b07d6420610311843q5bc76973g4cbbdfc3eca97897@mail.gmail.com> <200610312228.09690.kruptos@mlinux.org> <17736.5531.2779.100720@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200610312150.59780.lane@joeandlane.com> <44odrrgnxu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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Lowell Gilbert writes:

>  >> >  > I am interesting to be a ports maintainer for FreeBSD project.
>  >> >  > What need I do?
>  >> >
>  >> >  Find a port that needs a maintainer and take over it or find a
>  >> >  program not in ports and bring it in.
>
>  >  >	I'll get a jump on the process, and nominate
>  >  > www/linuxpluginwrapper.
>  >
>  > I second that!
>  
>  Unfortunately, porting effort isn't what that port really needs.  
>  Keeping it running the way it worked in the past would be really
>  more a matter of development effort.

	Call it what you will; it's broken, at least for OSVER >= 7,
and making it work/keeping it working will put the OP on a _lot_ of
people's "thank you!!!!" lists.


				Robert Huff



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