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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:59:24 +0100
From:      Volker Stolz <vs@freebsd.org>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful?
Message-ID:  <20040325085924.GA70761@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <opr5eiuf0f8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net>
References:  <opr5eiuf0f8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net>

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In local.freebsd-ports, you wrote:
> I think, it's useless because most of us don't do it. Also, we already 
> have the Whom: and MAINTAINER in the Makefile. It seems to me that sign 
> our name in it is making no sense for pkg-descr as in description file.

I never did it because I didn't feel like pasting my name all over the
place and didn't consider it was useful information. It might be an incentive
for new (as in "first-time") contributors who'd like to submit a new port
as a kind of reward, though.
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