On Jan 14, 2008, at 09:26, Stefmit wrote:

I apologize for coming back to this, but I have - I hope this time - a more constructive question: where do I find a quick tutorial on how to use and possibly help the macports process of package maintenance and updating? I am not a programmer, so I won;t be able to produce source from scratch, but I can find my way around code (having helped source code maintenance, at least as tester, for some network stuff for macosx - mostly informal) enough to lend a hand, at least with testing and ticket updates ...

Have you looked in the guide? http://guide.macports.org/ If it does not address this, we may need to add a section. (The guide is still new and a work in progress.)