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Date:      Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:41:56 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        pav@FreeBSD.org, Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: port maintainers not in contrib.additional.sgml
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.1.20031208204152.02ddfa10@popserver.sfu.ca>

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At 22:52 07/12/2003 +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>V ne, 07. 12. 2003 v 18:19, Colin Percival p=ED=B9e:
> >    Would anyone object if I sent out a form letter to these apparently
> > unlisted contributors, asking them if they'd like to be listed?  (And is
> > someone willing to commit the resulting massive patch when I collect the
> > replies together?)
>
>I was under impression that only authors of new ports are listed there.
>If someone take existing port, he's not automatically listed there.
>
>Rather than maintainer field you should pursue Whom: from port Makefiles
>headers.

   Hmm.  I had forgotten that.  Unfortunately, that makes things rather
harder, since the Whom: addresses are often many years out of date.

Colin Percival




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