MAINTAINER lines and Real Names

Chris Rees crees at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 11 21:18:48 UTC 2012


On 11 September 2012 22:14, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:
> On 09/11/2012 03:59 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 think it is a good idea.  (But I thought I suggested the same idea a few
> days ago!)
>

Haha, so you did, and I remember reading it too.

Sorry!  Now there's a patch that could make it reality.... :P

Chris


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