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.


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