Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:25:52 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful? Message-ID: <20040325052552.GA2124@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <opr5eiuf0f8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> References: <opr5eiuf0f8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:00:05PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > Hello, > > I just now noticed that in the Porter handbook said: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-desc.html#AEN81 > ================================================ > It is recommended that you sign your name at the end of this file, as in: > > This is a port of oneko, in which a cat chases a poor mouse all over > the screen. > : > (etc.) > > WWW: http://www.oneko.org/ > > - Satoshi > asami@cs.berkeley.edu > ================================================ > > I think, it's useless because most of us don't do it. Also, we already > have the Whom: and MAINTAINER in the Makefile. It seems to me that sign > our name in it is making no sense for pkg-descr as in description file. I always thought it was for the author of the program :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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