MAINTAINER lines and Real Names

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 21:00:19 UTC 2012


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>

How would people feel about supporting that in our ports tree?  I have
prepared a patch that keeps the old behaviour for "make maintainer",
and while I did it I couldn't help but notice that the code for make
readmes actually supports such a style.

http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/bsd-port-mk-maintainer-not-just-email.diff

As well as being nice to see, it would also mean that addport could
use the data in the MAINTAINER line to get real names back into
Submitted by: commit logs (currently it only has maintainer email).

As a nice extra, it would also on the surface support multiple
maintainers....  and make maintainer would still only return the first
match.

Chris

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/shells/bash/Makefile?rev=1.73


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