On 6/2/07, Chris Corbyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Apologies if I've duplicated this!) > > Hi, > > I'm a PHP developer coming from a linux background but using OS X for > the past year. I'm trying to get hold of Dustin Sias regarding the > PHP4 and 5 packages since they are becoming painfully out of date. > PHP 5.0.x was very quickly dropped when 5.1.x came out and > subsequently 5.2.x. In fact, 5.0.x lacks an incredible amount of > features and won't work very well at all with a lot of code so barely > anyone uses it. > > Does anyone know how I'd get hold of the package maintainer or take > responsibility for package maintenance myself? I'd be happy to > maintain these two packages and I'm sure I'm not the only PHP > developer on OS X feeling the pain of rebuilding everything into /usr/ > local/php linked against the apache2 and mysql in fink. > > Best Regards, > > Chris Corbyn > http://www.swiftmailer.org/ > If you like, you certainly could do up the updates--even if the existing maintainer is stil interested, your work would certainly help.
The process is informal: contact the listed maintainer and if they don't respond in a week (and if we haven't had any other contact with them), we figure that they're too busy to be active with the package and someone else can take it over. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
