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 development and/or user support mailing lists. * Contributing with documentation.

To apply for MacPorts commit rights, send a brief email to the PortMgr team at macports-mgr@lists.macports.org entitled "Commit access: +Your Name+" with the following contents: * a description of your application and why you think you deserve commit rights. Include evidence of contributions to MacPorts as described above; at best add direct links to Trac tickets or Trac searches that make the review easier for the PortMgr team. * your github username. This will be used as the identity the "handle", as part of your +handle@macports.org+ alias. * 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 as soon as they get to it.