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# MacPorts membership

## Becoming a MacPorts committer

Becoming a member of the MacPorts project with commit access to our Subversion repository is pretty much a matter of involvement in any of the areas of the project and the record you can establish thereof. We encourage any developer and/or volunteer to apply for a Subversion account if certain simple requirements are met:

Involvement on the List:

  One key attribute of any MacPorts committer must be enthusiasm for the project, so therefore we appreciate applicants who've shown their involvement through active participation on the main user list, either through general user support and/or project roadmap discussion and brainstorming.

Contribution record:

  If applying for access to the "mports" section of the project, an established record as a maintainer of already existing ports is preferable. This can be accomplished either through the inheritance of abandoned ports (those with the sole nomaintainer [at] macports DOT org maintainer address) or through writing your own from scratch. If instead you plan to apply to any other area of the project, like "base" or "www", contributions in the form of patches that can vouch for your skills on the aspects you plan to help with are certainly a big plus. In all cases, submissions to the project should be processed per the instructions detailed on the "MacPorts Submissions" chapter.

If you feel like you meet and comply with these requirements and wish to become a member of the group to help out personally, do feel free to send a note to the PortMgr steering committee explaining your contributions, how long you've been involved with the project and why think you'd make a good committer. The sole purpose of said forum is overseeing the general evolution of MacPorts, so it is where you should turn to for membership requests.

For a brief listing of the duties & benefits resulting from holding an OpenDarwin account, along with a short jump start on Subversion primaries, read OpenDarwin's Committer's Guide for account applicants. The MacPorts' specific New Committer's Guide is also a must read for new comers to become acquainted with our own procedures and guidelines.