These are my steps and notes to adopt/update a FreeBSD port.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Day 2

25% of the Handbook already read.

In the meantime, I visited this site
There, I found a list of ports that require a maintainer.

The list of ports is in order of Category :

Archivers
Astro
Benchmarks
Biology
Cad
Chinese
Comms
Converters
Databases
Deskutils
Devel
DNS
Editors
Emulators
Finance
French
FTP
Games
Graphics
IRC
Japanese
Java
Korean
Lang
Mail
Math
Misc
Multimedia
Net
Net-mgmt
Net-p2p
News
Palm
Print
Russian
Science
Security
Shells
Sysutils
Textproc
WWW
X11
X11-clocks
X11-fm
X11-fonts
X11-servers
X11-themes
X11-toolkits
X11-wm

I went through some of them and specially those one
that I could use on my PC.

I found this one: fluxconf. This is a gtk application that
helps you configure Fluxbox.

Then, I sent an email to ports@FreeBSD.org
asking to be the maintainer of that port.

:0 This morning I received an email advising me
that I am now the maintainer of that port.

Now I am the adopter of this port

Monday, January 29, 2007

Day 1

Read, read, read

Following a blog post from one of my favorites bloggers link
I will try to contribute to FreeBSD by adopting a port.

First step, read the documentation FreeBSD porter's Handbook

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