ciao mojca and ciao michele (and welcome to macports)! > On 7 Sep 2021, at 07:57, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: > > Dear Michele, > > On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 13:20, Michele Venturi wrote: >> >> What is a good way to start partecipate in your >> project? I'd like to give you a hand regularly. ๐ > > Welcome to MacPorts and thanks a lot for your willingness to help the > project grow. > > There are various ways to help, depending on your personal interests. > I'll list just a few that come to my mind first:
<omissis> > 3.) We have 20k+ ports. Many of them are outdated or broken and could > use some love. What most people contribute to are updates to various > ports that they personally care about. > One of the special tasks that doesn't require almost any special > knowledge and just takes a lot of time to do, would be migration of > all ports that depend on perl from perl 5.28 to 5.34. Most of the time > it's sufficient to just replace the version in all portfiles (and > ideally, but not necessarily test whether the modified port still > builds), but there are likely hundreds and any helping hand would be > mostly welcome. I can work on the migration from perl 5.28 to 5.34. should michele fancy to start working on macports with this tasks, i can volunteer to do it together with him so i can support him in these first steps! please be aware i am not a guru at all, but i can surely give michele an hand as general overview of the project and basic tasks (e.g. working with macports git) > Mojca best, โ Giuseppe โferdyโ Miceli
