Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:48:51 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Putting full names into MAINTAINER? Message-ID: <20010320094851.A61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <996b2k$rqs$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:17:08AM %2B0000 References: <996b2k$rqs$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:17:08AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> How about setting (allowing to set) this in ports?
>=20
> MAINTAINER=3D Full Name <email@addr.ess>
>=20
> Rationale:
> - It's friendlier. People can contact a person rather than a
> disembodied e-mail address.
> - Sendmail etc will still handle ${MAINTAINER}, so there is no
> immediate technical reason against it.
>=20
> Some time ago the OpenBSD Project introduced full names for MAINTAINER
> lines. I didn't think much of it at the time, but since then the
> idea has grown on me.
Sounds good to me.
--=20
wca
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