svn commit: r301130 - head/dns/zkt [ID#2012071909000066]

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:24:48AM -0700, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 19 July 2012 03:09, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I recall someone mentioned this, yes, but 1) this idea is stupid: instead of
> > removing bits of historical evidence, we should educate our users where to
> > look for correct maintainer address;
> 
> We don't lose historical evidence at all and why increase the
> cognitive load on the user "which email should I use?" when we could
> just remove the need entirely.

Many of those addresses are now gone.  Sometimes it is possible to trace
them back via original PR or Google, but I believe it would be harder and
harder as time goes by.  (Yes, I agree that this meta-information bears no
significant value other than nostalgic, but given that our Ports per se is a
great archive of open source movement during last ~20 years, I tend to dig
out and keep this bits of information for historic purposes.  Imagine if
someone would want to find out how many ports were submitted from something
like GeoCities addresses 50 years from now.)

However, as I've said, I prefer this header standardized (down to formatting)
and would not even object if we decide to remove it completely, for the
sake of consistency which I personally value a lot.

./danfe