Dear Sir/Ma'am, I shortly started voyaging through the documentation on MacPorts, which seemed quite interesting to me. I'm Saptarshi Mukherjee, a 3rd Year Undergraduate at IIT Bhilai in Computer Science and Engineering, and an enthusiast to contribute to MacPorts in *GSoC 2020. *
In the first place, I'm absolutely new to tcl and am feeling a need to know the language so as to have a clear understanding of the open-source codes. Having confessed that, I'd however add that I've looked at some files, acquired some overview, and then read some info about the issue concerning "*port reclaim*". Having got some understanding of the current requirement in that context, I hereby express my interest to contribute to that issue. I could perceive the need to retain the build-related ports which are currently being overlooked by the reclaim.tcl code, when checking for leaves. Apart from that, the task of "*Improving the Command Line UX*" was also interesting and seized my attention to try my hands on. Considering the fact that time is quite short with only 9-10 days remaining for the application, I'd sincerely request for some directions on how I should get going; whether I should read about tcl and revert with a concrete understanding of the code, or I should try crafting and suggesting innovative solutions (related to known data structures and relevant architectural models) and pseudo-codes for implementations of the aforementioned tasks. Any guidance would be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Yours Sincerely, *Saptarshi Mukherjee,* *IIT Bhilai.*
