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On 28/09/2007, at 12:11 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote:

> On Thursday 27 September 2007, Stephano Zanzin said:
>> Hello! Im new in this list, and I want to know how I can maintain a
>> ports. I want very much to contribute with the Ports project.
>> Please folks, help me!
>
> Start by reading the Porters Handbook.
>
> On your machine:
> /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html
>
> On the web:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ 
> index.html

Please also have a read of

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing- 
ports/index.html