On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:39:15PM +0100, Marius N?nnerich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Abthorpe <tabtho...@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 :)
Done. Thanks for stepping up. -- WXS _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
