MAINTAINER lines and Real Names

[Bryan Drewery]

On 9/11/2012 3:59 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Ever since I peeked at OpenBSD's ports [1] to see how they handle
> headers, I've noticed something else nice that they do.
> 
> Instead of the plain, boring who-the-hell-is-this MAINTAINER line that we have;
> 
> MAINTAINER=crees at FreeBSD.org
> 
> they have the much more pleasant and personal style;
> 
> MAINTAINER=Chris Rees <crees at FreeBSD.org>

I like this!

> 
> How would people feel about supporting that in our ports tree?  I have
> prepared a patch that keeps the old behaviour for "make maintainer",
> and while I did it I couldn't help but notice that the code for make
> readmes actually supports such a style.
> 
> http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/bsd-port-mk-maintainer-not-just-email.diff
> 
> As well as being nice to see, it would also mean that addport could
> use the data in the MAINTAINER line to get real names back into
> Submitted by: commit logs (currently it only has maintainer email).
> 
> As a nice extra, it would also on the surface support multiple
> maintainers....  and make maintainer would still only return the first
> match.

This would definitely be a huge plus.

> 
> Chris
> 
> [1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/shells/bash/Makefile?rev=1.73
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Regards,
Bryan Drewery
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