Overlong mailing-list maintainer address in ports

Boris Samorodov bsam at ipt.ru
Sat Dec 23 12:07:02 PST 2006


On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:03:06 +0300 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:

> It is by tradition that we use shorter unambiguous
> mailing-list addresses as port's maintainers ad-
> dresses. There are several ports with the following
> long addresses in the collection:

> freebsd-emulation at FreeBSD.org
> freebsd-eclipse at FreeBSD.org
> freebsd-ia64 at FreeBSD.org

> Please change them to their counterparts without
> the "freebsd-" prefix, give me a go-ahead if you
> want me to change them, leave this message unan-
> swered if you don't care (I'll change them after a
> time-out), or speak up if you have anything against
> the change.

Since I've seen many commits to GNATS last months to change those
addresses to canonical names (freebsd-*), it seems to me that current
policy is quite the opposite.


WBR
-- 
Boris Samorodov (bsam)
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FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve


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