Update of port ehcache

[Jackson Isaac]

Hi Saptarshi,

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 2:25 PM SAPTARSHI MUKHERJEE
<saptarshim at iitbhilai.ac.in> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I just looked at the ticket https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60219 related to updating of port ehcache. It involves a replacement of dependency and a few replacements related to the website from where the file shall be fetched. Following is the file I think is fine to be downloaded - https://github.com/ehcache/ehcache3/releases/download/v3.8.1/ehcache-3.8.1.jar. Kindly confirm the same.
>

The ticket is not assigned to anyone (meaning I don't think anyone is
working to solve this, yet).

If it were me, and I am interested to work on this, I would assign the
ticket to me.
To do so, you may
- Login to trac using github
- Under Modify ticket->reassign to 'Username'

As for the Portfile itself, it indeed looks very outdated. I would
suggest to use 'github' PortGroup to fetch the files. For ideas, you
may look at existing ports using this.

To make the search easy, I use 'the silver searcher' [1].

> I'd convey hereby that I'm interested to solve this issue, may kindly grant me permission for the same. Any suggestions are always welcome.
>

If the portfile has 'nomaintainer' or 'openmaintainer', you are always
welcome to create a pull request for it :).
To understand these terms, you may look at the Note under maintainers at [2]

In open source, I wouldn't expect you need to ask permission to work
and improve the project, unless explicitly mentioned.

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#macos
[2] https://guide.macports.org/#reference.keywords

Stay safe,
Jackson Isaac