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Date:      Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:54:11 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: Overlong mailing-list maintainer address in ports
Message-ID:  <20070113215411.6a80a04f@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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Quoting "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> (Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:15:33 +0300):

> On 12/24/06, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 12:04:20PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > If I read this right: in Makefiles we should use emulation@FreeBSD.org
> > > and in PRs freebsd-emulation, right?
> >
> > Checking the existing ports, they are all assigned to freebsd-emulation@.
> 
> Right. The question is, should we stick to shorter
> form for maintainership or allow both forms being
> used on a case-by-case basis.

If you use both kinds of addressing you create 2 maintenance groups in
automated tools (portsmon, automated PR mailing, ...). This can be used
on purpose, but is highly confusing to people which don't use this on a
daily basis (= confusing to people which have ot assign a PR to the
right group).

Bye,
Alexander.

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