Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:24:48 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Carlo Strub <cs@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r301130 - head/dns/zkt [ID#2012071909000066] Message-ID: <CAF6rxgmq96Qv2m--RtKax4qSfeXaPVYZpLLUpVuu4veAPEaDHw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120719100929.GA80680@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120719010925.GA18083@FreeBSD.org> <1342682908.443596.686173085.47077.2@c-st.net> <20120719100929.GA80680@FreeBSD.org>
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On 19 July 2012 03:09, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:28:28AM +0200, Carlo Strub wrote: >> 07/19/2012 03:10 - Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:39:17PM +0000, Carlo Strub wrote: >> > > --- head/dns/zkt/Makefile Wed Jul 18 21:03:43 2012 (r301129) >> > > +++ head/dns/zkt/Makefile Wed Jul 18 21:39:17 2012 (r301130) >> > > @@ -1,27 +1,30 @@ >> > > # New ports collection makefile for: zkt >> > > # Date created: 2008-08-06 >> > > -# Whom: Frank Behrens <frank+ports@ilse.behrens.de> >> > > +# Whom: Frank Behrens >> > >> > This header should not be touched. It reflect the reality when port was >> > first added, and should normally be made more accurate, not less (e.g. by >> > adding previously omitted address). >> >> If I remember correctly, there was an effort made a few years ago to >> remove all the mail addresses in the headers to not let users bother port >> originators but only maintainers if there was a problem. Is that not the >> right approach anymore? I am open for discussion. > > I recall someone mentioned this, yes, but 1) this idea is stupid: instead of > removing bits of historical evidence, we should educate our users where to > look for correct maintainer address; We don't lose historical evidence at all and why increase the cognitive load on the user "which email should I use?" when we could just remove the need entirely. -- Eitan Adler Source & Ports committer X11, Bugbusting teams
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