Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:30:45 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Putting full names into MAINTAINER? Message-ID: <20010321203045.B8245@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20010320094851.A61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:48:51AM -0500 References: <996b2k$rqs$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20010320094851.A61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:48:51AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:17:08AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > How about setting (allowing to set) this in ports?
> >
> > MAINTAINER= Full Name <email@addr.ess>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
In theory, the maintainer's full name is (usually) available from
the full text of PR's adding or updating the port. In practice,
from the standpoint of a person who's had more than once to hunt
through PR's for the maintainer's name, I must say I LOVE the idea.
G'luck,
Peter
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