New Maintainer Information

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Nov 19, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Brent Fulgham wrote:

> I just got an e-mail from someone interested in helping out with  
> MacPorts.  I checked through the web page looking for a quick link  
> to information for a wanna-be maintainer, but could not find much!


	Our revamped documentation is progressing at a rather slow pace,  
unfortunately, but I am hopeful much of this confusion will be cleared  
out once we publish it.

>
>
> * There is a "New Committer's Guide" (http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/NewCommittersGuide 
> ), but this seems aimed at people who are already maintainers.

	Mark, it would be great if we could move this type of document to the  
guide if not already there. The Wiki should be trimmed down only to  
HOWTOs, FAQs and topic specific tutorials (like setting up the  
traditional MySQL + PHP + Apache combo with MacPorts), but "formal"   
documentation such as this should exist on the WIki only in the form  
of links to the guide.

>
>
> * There is some interesting text in "http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/www/contact.php?rev=30359 
> ", but this does not seem to be on the web anyplace.


	Brent, that's what will become our new site once 1.6 is released, and  
it's currently available  in "beta form" at my server http://apollo.homeunix.net/macports 
  (note that index.php is still in need of some serious love!); feel  
free to direct anyone to it. With respect to inquiring about becoming  
a project member, the "Administrative Contacts" section in "Contact  
Us" points you to http://geeklair.net/new_macports_guide/#project.membership 
  in our new guide, which will be the authoritative source of  
information on that regard (though at the moment I agree it could be  
expanded).

	Regards,...


-jmpp