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 support lists.
Contributing with documentation
To apply for MacPorts commit rights, send a brief email to the
PortMgr team at <macports-mgr@lists.macosforge.org> entitled
“Commit access: Your Name” with the
following contents:
a description of your application and why you think you deserve commit rights (including evidence of contributions to MacPorts as described above).
the identity you'd like to use as a member of the project, A.K.A. 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 in a timely manner.