From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 11 21:11:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7090A106566C for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:11:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bdrewery@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392E98FC15 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q8BLB597090681 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:11:05 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from bdrewery@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q8BLB5xq090654 for ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:11:05 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery) Received: (qmail 76404 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2012 16:11:01 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.74?) (freebsd@shatow.net@74.94.87.209) by sweb.xzibition.com with ESMTPA; 11 Sep 2012 16:11:01 -0500 Message-ID: <504FA8F3.4040501@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:11:15 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Rees References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAINTAINER lines and Real Names X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:11:05 -0000 On 9/11/2012 3:59 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > 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 I like this! > > 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. This would definitely be a huge plus. > > Chris > > [1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/shells/bash/Makefile?rev=1.73 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Bryan Drewery bdrewery@freenode/EFNet