From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 2 17:59:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22F8106567F for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nameboongoon@yahoo.com) Received: from n57.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (n57.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [98.136.44.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65EE68FC30 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nameboongoon@yahoo.com) Received: from [216.252.122.218] by n57.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Mar 2009 17:45:31 -0000 Received: from [68.142.237.89] by t3.bullet.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Mar 2009 17:45:31 -0000 Received: from [67.195.9.81] by t5.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Mar 2009 17:45:31 -0000 Received: from [67.195.9.107] by t1.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Mar 2009 17:45:31 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp111.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Mar 2009 17:45:31 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 57032.66830.bm@omp111.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 24961 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Mar 2009 17:45:29 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1236015929; bh=maF9iAy8/l55o0o6z56TLPMOeX4HZ2H37dXPfmVvas0=; h=Message-ID:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=YPEU8LnJ4bZEGrC+eRWk2KTcblCG+SVzRTYKj432jv47yNfJPSNFT7LdURSA+y44DHIFr6KjWa0OlNH2TwW/fKc7pL2Ffl+ixvuIyTzs/E2kxkKe+nm+5pAqVcPumq/tN4o3ZG9WTbJ2ok85HA0wB891g6pxQz6rcApjfAV2HOw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=d7Jjw1jH9yswgxNC5Vbj75DSHjLdzpS2CBUwH79ShJvAGlWmCbgxeE433F9lGy1aHNGUqv6BILWBDAdprcAkOF8+OiHf8GYahPYjC3wDfK2xfESjOmRpY3Ip+nIBBu47/YxIQg16SGPjgFz1Q1TjB83uVGdSdWKmzokQrntAMpQ=; Message-ID: <440186.24550.qm@web112221.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.47.204.139] by web112221.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:45:29 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1277.29 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.1 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:45:29 -0800 (PST) From: Policemen Policemen To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: proposal: multiple maintainers for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:59:15 -0000 I've been reading this list's archives and this has come up once or twice in the past. I have a simple idea: Add a line to any ports Makefile "EXTRA_MAINTAINER = any other maintainers" Any of the maintainers have the right to approve an update to the port. The person listed as MAINTAINER decides 1) who could be listed as an "extra maintainer" 2) disagreements among the extra maintainers. Because this is simply an extra line of meta data to be read and parsed by humans no infrastructure need be changed. If anyone wants to write the tools to deal with emailing multiple people they can.