Split Trunk

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 4, 2007, at 01:37, Michael Wild wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Half of our portfiles (2139 of 4300) are currently unmaintained.  
> Even
> > ports that are maintained are not necessarily working properly. How
> > could we in good conscience even declare that the current port
> > collection is "stable"? How would dividing our efforts between  
> stable
> > and unstable branches help us to improve our ports collection faster
> > than we do now?
> >
> [snip]
>
> I'd gladly volunteer to take some. I think that it would make sense  
> to assign the ports by priority: Important ones first. However, as  
> I'm relatively new to MacPorts I don't know which ports are  
> considered to be important (or very popular). Any suggestions? How  
> would I go about "adopting" an unmaintained port?

Simply indicate your desire and a committer such as me can change the  
maintainer address in the port to yours. If you have an update to a  
port, even an unmaintained or openmaintainer one, attach a diff to a  
ticket and notify the list and someone will review and commit it.