How to become a package maintainer?

[Romeo Theriault <romeot%hawaii.edu@localhost>]

Hi, please point me in the correct direction if this is not the place
to ask this. I've been googling for a while and have been unable to
determine what the correct way to become a package maintainer is? Or
if a package needs a maintainer?

I would like to maintain the sysutils/salt package and it's
dependencies if needed. The package is currently in pkgsrc but is
quite out of date so I'm assuming (wrongly?) that it needs a
maintainer, which I'd be happy to do if needed.

Any pointers on how one can started?

Thank you,
Romeo