Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 02:22:28 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports? Message-ID: <5094.840878548@time.cdrom.com>
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That is, a variable defined in the Makefile which contains an author string purely for 2 cosmetic reasons: 1. You can easily see where it came from, as opposed to who's simply maintaining the FreeBSD port itself (which is all that MAINTAINER tells you). 2. The author gets more prominent credit, not having their work "swallowed" so much by the ports mechanism that many become anonymous to those users who aren't motivated enough to go digging through the port's work directory. I'm sure we could also use the extra information to dress up the web pages a little bit. Opinions? Jordan
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