Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:16:54 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers? Message-ID: <CAF6rxgkL4BS9q-BApVz8vj5=DG84xEdF=yQGESTv=s2JL_PPpg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201208271240.q7RCeRP2023075@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <20120826221228.GD58745@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <201208271240.q7RCeRP2023075@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On 27 August 2012 08:40, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > On various other older ports, when I couldnt get response in time > from MAINTAINER (I don't mean re hylafax), perhaps maintainer on > holiday, & I couldn't wait for send-pr tiem out, & didnt want to > invoke send-pr, I fell back succesfully, to contacting the Whom: > creator, who while no longer regularly motivated to do maintenance, > could respond without delay & give hints (fallback maintainer). Which is exactly the reason we should get rid of the whom lines. The submitter is *not* a fallback maintainer, and some users mistakenly assume that the whom line is the maintainer. We should be encouraging users to mail ports@freebsd.org and possibly cc the maintainer if required. > Some ports are easy to create, eg my lang/pbasic, but some are > hard, (eg I'd guess editors/openoffice-3 may have been, One might ask > # Whom: Martin Blapp The whom address might be bouncing, the person might be not be using FreeBSD anymore, or any of the like. > Let ports creators retain their one line of credit. Removing it > would save little & be ungrateful, like removing names out of .c > & .h. (Some (inc. me) may like noticing in passing who created > the ports one's working on)). The credit may encourage some ports > creators to struggle on, creating sometimes obdurate complex ports > one might otherwise be tempted to give up on after a not-yet-port > is just hand built & hand tested localy, Interesting argument. But this implies that we should allow the whom line to be changed by "creator request" -- Eitan Adler
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