cvs commit: ports/devel/ZendOptimizer pkg-descr ports/audio/abcmidi pkg-descr ports/astro/accrete pkg-descr ports/devel/adabooch pkg-descr ports/databases/aolserver-nsmysql pkg-descr ports/archivers/aolserver-nszlib pkg-descr ports/comms/aprsd ...

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 08:20:44PM -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:50:23 +0000 (UTC)
> Eitan Adler <eadler at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:
> >   Log:
> >   - remove maintainer tags from pkg-descr
> >   
> >   Approved by:    portmgr
> >   Approved by:    bapt (mentor)
> 
> Without getting into details of the actual change (the rationale of
> which is questionable per se), was there any actual discussion on
> this topic which I missed?  Getting the mentor and portmgr@ approval
> is obviously not enough for that kind of changes, there should've been
> a community consensus on this first.

Sweeping, largely mechanical changes which do not affect ports functionality
(that is, touching pkg-descr) are sufficed by portmgr@ aprroval, I believe.

As for community consensus, people were killing this old-school attribution
for quite some time already, and I don't recall any objections.  Eitan just
had bitten the bullet and made all our lives a bit easier.  :-)

Besides what I've earlier said to back it up, this information is already
stored in Makefile's header.  There is absolutely no need to taint port
description with this kind of noise.

> It's also a good gesture to inform a maintainer of the port of the
> planned changes ask for his/her agreement [...]

This wouldn't hurt, perhaps you're right; given that some of removed lines
were removed a bit too fast.

./danfe