sysutils/parallel maintainer: looking for guidance

[Chris Howey]

On 25 November 2013 18:54, Chris Howey <howeyc at gmail.com> wrote:

> The latest version of parallel (20131122) has added a "Please use the
> below reference to cite parallel" notice that prints a few lines of output
> to stderr when it runs.
>
> User action is required to stop this notice from appearing upon every
> invocation (by running "parallel --bibtex" once).
>
> My concern is that anyone currently running automated scripts using
> parallel may be caught off guard by this, should I keep it anyway, or
> comment it out in a patch?
>
> Maybe a pkg-message, or a note in UPDATING, or is it even worth worrying
> about?
>

I received a reply from the upstream author echoing what Matthias said (
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-November/088067.html),
mentioning he made efforts to have the notice only appear when run from a
terminal.

If anyone's curious I'm not going to make any modifications regarding the
notice.