On Jun 18, 2010, at 06:24, Scott Haneda wrote: > On Jun 18, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >>> When the maintainer states just a name, in this case 'simon' what does that >>> mean? >> >> What do you mean, what does it mean? :) It means the port is maintained by >> Simon Ruderich, as shown on the MacPortsDevelopers wiki page. > > You sort of answered what I meant. It was just a first name, so I had no > idea how to contact that person. Most ports that have not seen action in a > while, not that this was the case, I did not look at the history, have an > email address where I can contact. > > I had no idea where to go to contact the maintainer, because it was just a > first name. Or is it that when you run `port info` on it, it will expand the > name out to the email address?
"port info foo" should show you the email address of the maintainer responsible for port "foo". See also: http://guide.macports.org/#reference.keywords.maintainers >>> Do I take over these ports, or just update them and submit them? >> >> exif is maintained by Simon, so if you want to take it over, you should >> discuss that with him. > > What does it mean when it had a name and the openmaintain...@]macports.org > address simultaneously? Also explained in the guide, above. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
