MAINTAINER lines and Real Names

[Bryan Drewery]

On 9/11/2012 6:32 PM, Olli Hauer wrote:
> On 2012-09-12 00:50, Michael Scheidell wrote:
>> Like with Apache, x 11, or perl?
>> Trying to get something there committed it's like pulling tiger teeth with
>> a pair of pliers. return I agree multiple maintainers is a bad idea.
>> If someone is technical enough to want to maintain that, they can always
>> use an alias it goes to a group.
>> Oh, were talking to Apache  x 11 or Perl again
>>

I see the proposal less about *FreeBSD Ports Teams* and more about
*Non-FreeBSD* groups. We can only blame ourselves for having
non-responsive teams, or having *mailing lists* be maintainers.

I see the benefit here more about allowing us to commit PR from any of
the listed addresses, as well as allow end-users to have more *people*
to contact.

> 
> 
> I see no reason for having multiple MAINTAINERS.
> Commit with implicit and if you like give a statement
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/MaintainerNotes about co-maintaining.
> 
> I already wiped my eyes on this commit
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=304107

This is less about implicit approval, and more about having more support
contact for end-users. There's nothing stopping anyone from doing this
in other pors, why not make it standard for 'make maintainer' to list
these people. There's no harm.

> 
> Or as Alberto already explained the reasons for a team form one.
> 
> @Michael
> Trolling or experience?
> 
> $> query-pr -c ports -r apache -y scheidel -q
>  query-pr: no PRs matched
> 
> $> query-pr -c ports -r perl -y scheidel -q
>  oh, found two PR's for 4.11 and 5.5
> 
> $> query-pr -c ports -r x11 -y scheidel -q
>  query-pr: no PRs matched
> 
> 
> --
> Regards,
> olli
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Bryan Drewery
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