Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:53:55 -0500 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> To: "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.me.uk> Cc: doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports chapter.sgml Message-ID: <200901210953.55777.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090121140843.GA77901@titania.njm.me.uk> References: <200901211342.n0LDgFE3006937@repoman.freebsd.org> <20090121140843.GA77901@titania.njm.me.uk>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On January 21, 2009 09:08:43 am N.J. Mann wrote: > > <para>In particular, ports shown as maintained by > > - <email role="nolink">freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org</email> are > > + <email role="nolink">ports@FreeBSD.org</email> are > > Are you aware that, according to > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo it is freebsd-ports@ . > Similarly, the List-Post header included in all mail distributed by said > list is: List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> > > I am not suggesting that your change is wrong, just that I feel there > should be some consistency in this. Perhaps that is what you are trying > to achieve? > > > Cheers, > Nick. Hi Nick. That is the essence of it, while the the mailing list indeed is freebsd-ports@, it is also aliased as ports@. The convention in the ports tree is to hook unmaintained ports with the email adress of ports@, ergo the rationale to change the the one address. Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkl3NwMACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qBOzgCeLutZ4u5+Fxctumvuv5VseGlL k/cAn2acLnzFfQyEBgznqaWiZEfPUuUh =9tgZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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