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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:34:49 +0300
From:      "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Boris Samorodov" <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org, eclipse@freebsd.org, ia64@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Overlong mailing-list maintainer address in ports
Message-ID:  <cb5206420612231234w1b01c0bbgc61f4e8f7827e455@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <21940630@bsam.ru>
References:  <cb5206420612231103v69d1780dlefb3d4c62ca10baa@mail.gmail.com> <21940630@bsam.ru>

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On 12/23/06, Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:03:06 +0300 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>
> > It is by tradition that we use shorter unambiguous
> > mailing-list addresses as port's maintainers ad-
> > dresses. There are several ports with the following
> > long addresses in the collection:
>
> > freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
> > freebsd-eclipse@FreeBSD.org
> > freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org
>
> > Please change them to their counterparts without
> > the "freebsd-" prefix, give me a go-ahead if you
> > want me to change them, leave this message unan-
> > swered if you don't care (I'll change them after a
> > time-out), or speak up if you have anything against
> > the change.
>
> Since I've seen many commits to GNATS last months to change
> those addresses to canonical names (freebsd-*), it seems to
> me that current policy is quite the opposite.

Do you mean problem reports?

Please understand that with over 5600 ports pointing to
FreeBSD mailing-lists just "many" may not be enough. Of
them all only 43 have "freebsd-"-prefixed addresses.



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