# MacPorts Project Info

## About this Chapter

This chapter contains basic information about the MacPorts project.

## Mailing Lists

The MacPorts project is organized through mailing lists, and discussion on those lists ranges from new user help to bugs and fixes to discussions about the future direction of MacPorts.

macports-dev [at] lists DOT macosforge DOT org

  General discussion about MacPorts development.

macports-users [at] lists DOT macosforge DOT org

  New user help, and most all discussion surrounding MacPorts.

macports-tickets [at] lists DOT macosforge DOT org

  All bugs entered in Trac at macports.org for MacPorts... very little real communication goes on on this list, it is used for MacPorts developers to view new bugs that are automatically assigned to this mailing list.

macports-changes [at] lists DOT macosforge DOT org

  Subversion commit messages are sent to this list, and occasionally there is some discussion about a commit. This is mainly a list for MacPorts developers, however if you want to track changes to MacPorts, you can subscribe to this list.

macports-mgr [at] lists DOT macosforge DOT org

  This list is closed and is the home of the MacPorts PortMgr steering group. If you have an issue that needs to be brought to the attention of PortMgr, send a mail to this list.

## MacPorts PortMgr

The MacPorts PortMgr Group is primarily responsible for the administritive decision making of MacPorts. For example managing the MacPorts website, approving svn accounts, maintaining the MacPorts mailing lists, and other organizational functions. Send mail to macports-mgr [at] macports DOT org to get in contact with it.

### PortMgr Group

- Markus W. Weissmann, mww [at] macports DOT org

- Juan M. Palacios, jmpp [at] macports DOT org

- James D. Berry, jberry [at] macports DOT org