Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:19:16 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Ben Crowell <bsdportscrowell04@lightandmatter.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: listing ports@FreeBSD.org as maintainer Message-ID: <B0C77794-C528-11D8-9250-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20040623101308.A6294@lightandmatter.com>
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Ben Crowell wrote: > Some ports have ports@FreeBSD.org listed as the address of the > maintainer. These are ports not maintained by anyone. There are more ports maintained by the members of a mailing list, for example perl, gnome, kde, java or openoffice. > I'd like to suggest that if the maintainer of a port doesn't want to > list his > own address, READMEs should just read like this: > <p>If needed, you may contact the port <a href= > "mailto:ports@FreeBSD.org">mailing-list</a>.</p> These ports are free for adoption, so there is no maintainer involved. The READMEs are generated by a script, you want want to provide a patch. > I hope you'll all agree with me that having people post inadvertently to > a list is undesirable [...] We all agree. > [...] Even now, I'm posting to > this list blind, without knowing where it's archived or how to get > replies. <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd- ports/2004-June/013608.html> -Oliver
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