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On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 15:00:07 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 12/28/2011 14:52, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> 
> > We have
> > 
> > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware
> > 
> > that tries to track the state of anything upstream in src. 
> 
> I've been maintaining BIND in the base for 9 1/2 years, and never knew
> about that page ... the wiki is a good tool for some things, but IMO
> this kind of information needs to be in the src tree where it is easily
> available, archived for the future, etc.

Agreed. It would make branching that information a whole lot easier!

Any good ideas on how to implement this? It could be as simple as having
all that information in /CONTRIB or something, similar to UPDATING or
MAINTAINERS.

Uli