Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 10:08:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960824100732.924B-100000@protocol.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <5094.840878548@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > 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. I think that's a good idea, position in just above the MAINTAINER line. > > Opinions? > > Jordan > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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