From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 23 5:19:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (blizzard.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED2337BA73 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 05:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.106]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02556; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:18:03 +0300 (EEST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA83685; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:19:01 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <395355AE.EBE29AD@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:18:55 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Gerald Pfeifer , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports-maintainers? References: <394CA25D.77A15740@FreeBSD.org> <20000623075752.B77304@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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