Question about maintainers

[Roman Neuhauser]

# pauls at utdallas.edu / 2005-07-27 18:01:31 -0500:
> --On Thursday, July 28, 2005 00:53:04 +0200 Björn König 
> <bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> >Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >
> >>If a port lists the maintainer (in the Makefile) as "fred", does that
> >>mean fred at freebsd.org?
> >
> >I can't find a port with incomplete information about its maintainer. Use
> >'make maintainer' to determine the e-mail address of the responsible
> >maintainer. Look for the variable MAINTAINER in Makefile.
> >
> x11-toolkits/iwidgets
> 
> make maintainer
> ports at FreeBSD.org
> 
> head Makefile
> # New ports collection makefile for:    itk
> # Date created:         Aug 17 1996
> # Whom:                 chuckr
> 
> So, does this mean that chuckr no longer maintains the port?

    That block at the top has information about the original creator
    of the port. If I create a new port for software I want to use on
    FreeBSD (but don't want to maintain the port), I'll use

    # New ports collection makefile for:    $whatever
    # Date created:         $right_now
    # Whom:                 Roman Neuhauser
    ...
    MAINTAINER=		ports at FreeBSD.org

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