cvs commit: ports/textproc/gmat Makefile

[Eivind Eklund]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:23:26PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > I'm very uncomfortable with this commit. Mostly on the principle that
> > anything that reduces individual expression is bad, however I honestly
> > don't understand what you're trying to "fix" here.
> > 
> > If there is honestly a problem with the capitalization of the address,
> > why isn't it solved at your end? What am I missing here?
> 
> My code sorts on a case-insensitive basis, since email addresses
> AFAIK are case-insensitive.  It is merely a matter of seeing certain
> addresses catch my eye again and again on my reports.
> 
> There seems to be a trend to, in both ports and documentation, to
> canonicalize the style of our email addresses as FreeBSD.org.  I had
> even thought such a thing might be controversial; I thought it was
> "just the way we did things."

We decided on FreeBSD.org as "official capitalization" after a bikeshed
(on the -doc list, IIRC) sometime in the 1998-1999 (possibly early 2000)
timeframe.  I'm not sure whether this has been documented somewhere or
not.

> I will avoid all such commits in the future -- unless someone decides
> to define a policy.  Feel free to back this change out if you wish.

The policy is that we should use consistent capitalization in order
to give a consistent image and increase "brand recognition".  Or at
least it was that the last time this was up for discussion.

Eivind.