Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:11:08 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@critical.ch> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ZendOptimizer pkg-descr ports/audio/abcmidi pkg-descr ports/astro/accrete pkg-descr ports/devel/adabooch pkg-descr ports/databases/aolserver-nsmysql pkg-descr ports/archivers/aolserver-nszlib pkg-descr ports/comms/aprsd ... Message-ID: <20111024011108.GD92862@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20111024010235.GC92862@FreeBSD.org> References: <201110222350.p9MNoNPP081796@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111023163729.a2631c30.ehaupt@critical.ch> <20111024010235.GC92862@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 01:02:35AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 04:37:29PM +0200, Emanuel Haupt wrote: > > > Log: > > > - remove maintainer tags from pkg-descr > > > > > > Approved by: portmgr > > > Approved by: bapt (mentor) > > > > Are there any efforts planed to remove the roughly 1689 'Author' entries? > > Author entries are a bit special. There are lots of small utilities like > `archivers/nwreckdum' for example, that do not have any WWW page, but are > still useful. Ha, ironically, eadler@ dropped that line from archivers/nwreckdum/pkg-descr. Eitan, I believe that goes a bit beyond removing "maintainer tags". While I was always supporting to removing this old-school attribution (popular in those days when community was small and those names of people who submitted the port/package or simply made it useful made some sense -- but those days are gone, FBoFW), removing original author name is probably wrong. ./danfe
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