Re: Outdated ports

> On 1. Jan 2022, at 16:00, Michael Fiano <mfml@fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Forgive me if this is not the correct forum. I've only been using FreeBSD for a a couple months after a couple decades of Linux, and I noticed some popular projects have ports that are severely out-dated:
> 
> sysutils/dunst is behind 5 releases, nearly a year old.
> x11/rofi is behind 4 releases, more than a year old.
> 
> There were some others too, but these are the ones I remember. I was under the impression that ports were kept fairly up to date. I am also aware that this is  volunteer work and someone might have to be nudged. Can someone point me to the correct approach here?

Open a PR at https://bugs.FreeBSD.org, make sure to select the correct category (ports) and use the ports origin as the prefix of the subject line, this will make sure it gets assigned to the maintainer automatically (e.g., "editors/joe: Update to version 9.13").

If you feel ambitious, you can also attach a patch to do the update to help the maintainer. This would also allow a committer to help, in case there is no reaction from the maintainer within a couple of weeks.

You can find more information on how to write PRs here: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/problem-reports/#pr-writing

Best
Michael