Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports

[Kris Moore]

Wanted to run this by the ports community, see your thoughts. We build
our PBIs from the ports system, and are able to parse most of the
information out for display graphically, like descriptions, maintainers,
website, License, etc. However we currently don't have a way to pull the
actual name of the upstream vendor / author. I.E. for Firefox the vendor
would be "Mozilla".

This information is useful to use, because we want to be able to show
users who exactly is the author of the software, not just the
maintainer, which may only be gnome@ or ports@ or whatever. Does anybody
have any thoughts on if this could be something we support in the tree?

While I'm on the topic, how about a broader "type" for ports as well?
Something like "gui/cli/library/data/doc/meta/foo" would be helpful to
further categorize applications.

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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
iXsystems