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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:22:36 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>,
        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>,
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Subject: Re: MAINTAINER file (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/eisa ahb.c)
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On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:17:43AM +0000, Brian Somers wrote:
> > One
> > possibility would be to put a MAINTAINER file somewhere to indicate
> > this property.
> > 
> > What do you others think?
> 
> How about a MAINTAINER= line in the Makefile - this is what Peter's 
> been doing:

See
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/policies:maintainer.html

This has been standard since before I joined the project, and I've
several times encouraged people to do this for sections of code
they're acting as maintainers for.

We still need something for kernel files, though.

Eivind.


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