Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:59:56 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful? Message-ID: <c3uoks$193u$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <opr5eiuf0f8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net>
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Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> 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 dislike it. I don't see any use for it and it feels like exaggerated self-promotion. Frequently the description is copied verbatim from a README or man page; signing your name below makes it look like you are the author. Ugh. I also keep running into ports where MAINTAINER and pkg-descr are out of sync. If people want to provide a human name in addition to the bare e-mail address in MAINTAINER, then I suggest we expand the MAINTAINER format to include a real name, just like OpenBSD did: MAINTAINER= Foo Bar <fbar@some.place> -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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