Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:59:46 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: MAINTAINER lines and Real Names Message-ID: <CADLo83925NLoD_-hAvUp7V8o6CAhqRQPcC_qrY3hEtEJc%2B%2B_fQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, Ever since I peeked at OpenBSD's ports [1] to see how they handle headers, I've noticed something else nice that they do. Instead of the plain, boring who-the-hell-is-this MAINTAINER line that we have; MAINTAINER=crees@FreeBSD.org they have the much more pleasant and personal style; MAINTAINER=Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> How would people feel about supporting that in our ports tree? I have prepared a patch that keeps the old behaviour for "make maintainer", and while I did it I couldn't help but notice that the code for make readmes actually supports such a style. http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/bsd-port-mk-maintainer-not-just-email.diff As well as being nice to see, it would also mean that addport could use the data in the MAINTAINER line to get real names back into Submitted by: commit logs (currently it only has maintainer email). As a nice extra, it would also on the surface support multiple maintainers.... and make maintainer would still only return the first match. Chris [1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/shells/bash/Makefile?rev=1.73
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