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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:18:55 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
Cc:        Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports-maintainers?
Message-ID:  <395355AE.EBE29AD@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <394CA25D.77A15740@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006231327100.23642-100000@nunki.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20000623075752.B77304@argon.gryphonsoft.com>

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Will Andrews wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 01:30:01PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > Actually, that might indicate the need for some mechanism to contact
> > ports maintainers. ports@freebsd.org is a bit much volume for someone
> > maintaining just a single port (like me), yet it would be very useful
> > to obtain important infos like freeze dates, general changes, etc.
>
> Yeah, many folks have expressed unhappiness at not being notified about
> these.
>
> > How about adding a lower-volume ports-maintainers (or similiar) list which
> > is automatically created from the MAINTAINER fields in the Makefiles and
> > where such announcements are sent?
>
> Sounds like a good idea, although we should still allow people to opt
> out of them - in which case it will be their own fault they didn't know
> about massive updates and such.
>
> Anyone else like this idea?  Perhaps we should have some restrictions on
> who can join, but still archive it?

I rather would like it to be a very low-traffic read-only list writeable only
for Satoshi and his deputy (selected by him for the cases when he is far away
from us). Something like "ports-announce" should be fine.

-Maxim



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