Thomas Abthorpe (Thu 02/12/09 12:32): > > 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? > Well, if we go so far, could someone (you???) look at net/acx100 and net/gacxtool ports. The related PR 129977 (2 months, still unassigned). The port formally has a maintainer but its current state: BROKEN= Does not compile on FreeBSD >= 6.x DEPRECATED= Has been broken for more than 6 months EXPIRATION_DATE=2008-09-19 says for itself.
Related discussion on -CURRENT: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-December/001666.html This is the message from developer saying the driver should work on 7.0: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-December/001709.html More details are in the PR description. Thanks, Alexey. _______________________________________________ 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"
