On Sat, 24 May 2014, the wise Kurt Jaeger wrote:
My favorite mailer alpine has no port maintainer at the moment. Ports
that have no maintainer and/or staging are at risk of being deleted from
the portstree, and alpine is a port that I would definitely miss.
So I was thinking of becoming a port maintainer. Although I'm using
FreeBSD for 15 years now, I have no programming experience at all.
Do you have experience building software ? What is your background ?
Other than building ports, no. I don't have an IT background, but a
finance and legal background so that's not helping me here :-).
So my first question is if it is possible for someone like me to become a
maintainer for a port like alpine, or should I learn programming in C
first?
Learning 'make' would probably more important to maintain the port.
Given that the latest alpine release was around 2008, it looks like
this software is not maintained even upstream! For this, you will
definitly need C skills.
The version in ports is old but alpine is still being developed and
currently at version 2.11.
Given the deadline for non-staged ports, it looks like a tight race.
I know so that is why I'm interested.
--
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
-- Confucius
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