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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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