With the end of teTeX as a separate distribution, Gerben Wierda needs another source for the main texmf tree of his TeX redistribution for Mac OS X and could use help from someone with good make/sh skills to create a script-like solution to generate a teTeX texmf-clone from TeX Live's Master tree as he does not have the time to do the initial work required to change from teTeX to TL as a source. This is not exceedingly difficult, but it is a decent bit of work.
You need to have decent make/sh (an alternative tool that may be employed is perl, but no other (to keep the amount of tools needed acceptable)) skills and have a Mac running Max OS X 10.3 or up. The work includes
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setting up your own TL Master copy with perforce (and thus installing perforce and learning to use it). The move to svn from perforce will be done later as the current build environment is tied to perforce versioning and it is not wise to do two types of changes simultaneously
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setting up your own copy of Gerben's build environment (some directories, Makefiles and such) and learning how it works
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analyzing teTeX's texmf tree and rebuilding its content (not necessarily its layout) from scratch from the TL Master tree
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discussing with Gerben along the way on how all of this can be solved best. Alternative solutions are of course possible (a creative mind is welcome), but the above way is deemed to be the lowest impact (e.g. minimal changes for the users and thus minimal support requests to Gerben after the change has taken place)
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testing and supporting users (via the Mac OS X TeX mailing list) during the transition
Estimated time for a skilled person:
a few days to learn everything, a week to build the basic Makefile entries, test etc. All of this spread over a month or so.
