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Date:      Sun, 7 Nov 2021 23:53:31 +0100
From:      Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Dan Mahoney (Ports)" <freebsd@gushi.org>, Daniel Engberg <diizzy@freebsd.org>, Freebsd Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Regarding port(s) you maintain in FreeBSD ports collection
Message-ID:  <8BD6CB40-7E3E-4CFD-B184-CE641675A611@grem.de>
In-Reply-To: <20211107224029.GB45416@eureka.lemis.com>
References:  <20211107224029.GB45416@eureka.lemis.com>

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> On 7. Nov 2021, at 23:40, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFOn Sunday,  7 November 2021 at 20:27:01 +0100, Michael Gmelin wro=
te:
>>> On 7. Nov 2021, at 20:06, Dan Mahoney (Ports) <freebsd@gushi.org> wrote:=

>>>>> On Nov 7, 2021, at 7:04 AM, Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org> wrote:=

>>>>> You're receiving this mail because you have one or more ports that
>>>>> are affected by the change proposed in
>>>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32880 ...
>>>=20
>>> This caused me some headscratching (wait, is my port here but not
>>> in the list?  Am I mailed because a port here is a dependency of my
>>> port?)
>>=20
>>> I???ve concluded that instead I???m receiving this mail because you
>>> sent it to the entire ports mailing list.  Am I wrong?
>>=20
>> At least one of the affected ports is maintained by ports@ (=3Dunmaintain=
ed).
>=20
> That makes it rather pointless to say "because you have one or more
> ports".  Now *everybody* has to go through the list to find whether
> they're affected or not.

Not really, as I assume everyone maintaining these ports received a separate=
 email addressed to the address used in the MAINTAINER field. That=E2=80=99s=
 consistent with other emails received on ports@ (like update notices from p=
ortscout).

>  It would have been better to exclude ports@
> from the list.

Or change the wording for that specific email, I was also slightly confused =
 and checked the list of affected ports, just to make sure - also as a consu=
mer of ports.

> But what I see is that really only ports@ was on the
> To: list.
>=20

Which makes sense, as those emails were sent to maintainers (one email per m=
aintainer). Again, that=E2=80=99s consistent with other communication to por=
ts@, even though in this case, some specific wording would=E2=80=99ve helped=
.

Just to be clear, I only explained what happened there, I didn=E2=80=99t sen=
d those emails or was involved in any way.

-m





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