<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Jul 2018, at 6:15 pm, dan d. <<a href="mailto:dandunfee@gmail.com" class="">dandunfee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">I brought this up recently and was told to do a "pull request".<br class=""><br class="">I have no experience with such things.<br class=""><br class="">On the web they seem to be contributions of new or branches of ports and not updating existing ports.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>What exactly are you looking at ?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Git Pull requests can be viewed at</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pulls" class="">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pulls</a></div><div><div><br class=""></div><div>and there are certainly examples of both new ports and updates to existing ones.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Advising the port maintainer of a request was also suggested on the web, I have done so twice in the past weeks with no indication it was ever<br class="">recieved let alone being considered.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>In what manner did you ‘advise the port maintainer’. Sending a mail to this list is not the way. To do so either submit a pull request with the update yourself, or file a ticket in trac requesting an update.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets" class="">https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Pull requests are more likely to get acted on quicker. For a guide to that see for instance</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.github.html" class="">https://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.github.html</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Chris</div><div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></body></html>