A requirement for a person to become a MacPorts committer is to first become involved and contribute to the project. This may be done by having a record of contribution to the project in several of the following ways:
Contributing new ports.
Fixing bugs in existing ports.
Volunteering as a maintainer of non-maintained ports.
Involvement on MacPorts development and/or user support mailing lists.
Contributing with documentation.
To apply for MacPorts commit rights, send a brief email to the
PortMgr team at <macports-mgr@lists.macports.org> entitled
"Commit access: Your Name" with the
following contents:
a description of your application and why you think you deserve commit rights. Include evidence of contributions to MacPorts as described above; at best add direct links to Trac tickets or Trac searches that make the review easier for the PortMgr team.
your github username. This will be used as the identity the
"handle", as part of your handle@macports.org
a real e-mail address to which you'd like your MacPorts alias to forward.
The PortMgr team will consider all applications and provide an appropriate response as soon as they get to it.