From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 24 07:08:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA04688 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 07:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA04683 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 07:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from protocol.eng.umd.edu (protocol.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.180]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA15439; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 10:08:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by protocol.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00935; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 10:08:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: protocol.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 10:08:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@protocol.eng.umd.edu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports? In-Reply-To: <5094.840878548@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > That is, a variable defined in the Makefile which contains an author > string purely for 2 cosmetic reasons: > > 1. You can easily see where it came from, as opposed to who's simply > maintaining the FreeBSD port itself (which is all that MAINTAINER > tells you). > > 2. The author gets more prominent credit, not having their work "swallowed" > so much by the ports mechanism that many become anonymous to those users > who aren't motivated enough to go digging through the port's work > directory. > > I'm sure we could also use the extra information to dress up the web > pages a little bit. I think that's a good idea, position in just above the MAINTAINER line. > > Opinions? > > Jordan > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------