Help offered

[Michele Venturi]

I like shell scripting, it looks like a good first task.


On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, 12:01 Giuseppe 'ferdy' Miceli, <ferdy at ferdy.it> wrote:

>         ciao mojca and ciao michele (and welcome to macports)!
>
> > On 7 Sep 2021, at 07:57, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Michele,
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 13:20, Michele Venturi wrote:
> >>
> >> What is a good way to start partecipate in your
> >> project? I'd like to give you a hand regularly. 🙌
> >
> > Welcome to MacPorts and thanks a lot for your willingness to help the
> > project grow.
> >
> > There are various ways to help, depending on your personal interests.
> > I'll list just a few that come to my mind first:
>
> <omissis>
>
> > 3.) We have 20k+ ports. Many of them are outdated or broken and could
> > use some love. What most people contribute to are updates to various
> > ports that they personally care about.
> > One of the special tasks that doesn't require almost any special
> > knowledge and just takes a lot of time to do, would be migration of
> > all ports that depend on perl from perl 5.28 to 5.34. Most of the time
> > it's sufficient to just replace the version in all portfiles (and
> > ideally, but not necessarily test whether the modified port still
> > builds), but there are likely hundreds and any helping hand would be
> > mostly welcome.
>
> I can work on the migration from perl 5.28 to 5.34.
>
> should michele fancy to start working on macports with this tasks, i can
> volunteer to do it together with him so i can support him in these first
> steps!
>
> please be aware i am not a guru at all, but i can surely give michele an
> hand as general overview of the project and basic tasks (e.g. working with
> macports git)
>
>
> > Mojca
>
>
> best,
> —
> Giuseppe ‘ferdy’ Miceli
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