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[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 6/15/07, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:55:02PM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:29:59PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > >
> > > New committers are also encouraged to bring their
> > > "Whom:" lines to some normal form - I assume for you
> > > it's Timur I. Bakeyev <timur at FreeBSD.org> - for
> > > consistency.
> > >
> >
> > The header should never be touched, IMHO. Changing it would imply that
> > Timur created the port after becoming a committer.
>
> My understanding is that we don't change it after it is committed.

Apparently I misunderstood it. It's not documented as
being invariant. As I understood it, it's referring
to a person, not a state of his identity. I.e. if a
person changes name and/or e-mail address, the header
may be updated.

Another questi1on I would like to ask here is: are we
changing headers after repocopies? I always thought
that for historical purposes they should be left
unchanged, but many after-repocopy commits change
them to refer to the new maintainers.