Hello, I am new to MacPorts and would like to contribute new and update ports mainly in math and science. I have some comments on MacPorts homepage. I find the home page unfriendly to newbies. They have to find clicking "wiki." Although I understand that WordPress is used so news are shown, a page for the first step is needed. I had hard time finding that how to contribute until I find "Trac." 1. You have to register. 2. You have to know what Trac is. 3. You have to find the attachment appears on the next page to the new ticket page. For give me for full of complains. In fact I find MacPorts useful and I would like to switch to MacPorts and contribute several math/ science packages. List of my tickets. * infrastructure: g95-0.90: 11511 odcctools 20060608 (required for g95-0.90): 11512 netcdf-3.6.1 (an update): 11513 libdap-3.7.5: 11514 libnc-dap-3.7.0: 11515 cdo-1.0.6: 11516 nco-3.1.8: 11517 mpich2-1.0.5p3 (an update): 11525 * script languages for math/science: octave-2.9.9 (an update): 11518 octave-forge (an update, g95 variant): 11519 gdl-0.9pre4: 11524 * plotting package: plplot-5.7.2 (for gdl): 11522 freetype-2.3.1 (required by plplot): 11520 freefont-ttf (required by plplot): 11521 gsl-1.9 (an update): 11523 - Components for 11519 and 11512 should have been ports. - Types for 11513, 11514, 11515, 11525 should have been enhancement. - In fact I don't now which to choose from those menus well. - It is not clear to me your policy how to set dependencies (old doc incomplete). - Do dependencies need a version number? How can I set it? Best wishes, Takeshi