I'm sorry for the late reply, too. I have the following suggestions: 1. unmaintained: we remove it from cvs and copy the plain files to a http-repository. from then on it is distributed by httpup. Without the pros and cons of cvs. 2. We write a php upload page on crux.fh-regensburg.de, where users can upload new ports (as gzipped tarfiles). The files run through a few sanity checks and go directly to the direcory from point 1. The web gui should have the following features: upload a port with information about the date, all other information can be read out of the Pkgfile headers; remove port. So *everybody* can upload a port to the server and *everybody* can remove every port. Could this work (wiki concept)? 3. If a maintainer wants a port of this "everybody can do everything"-repository in contrib, the he can remove it and put it into contrib. I could write a part of the php code, but I have not much time the next weeks. Comments? Bye Martin