I like shell scripting, it looks like a good first task.
On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, 12:01 Giuseppe 'ferdy' Miceli, <fe...@ferdy.it> wrote: > 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 Many of them are outdated or broken and could 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
