MAINTAINER lines and Real Names

[Julian H. Stacey]

> 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'd welcome a patch to allow multiple maintainers.  It would be an
enabling, Doesn't imply requirement to have multiple for all ports.

Individual ports maintainers & users might feel different numbers
of Maintainers were appropriate to different ports, a luxury to
choose that FreeBSD hasn't offered till now.

Could give faster response when prime=first maintainer is
on holiday, or snowed under.

As to list names used for Maintainer,
   That seems to remain a seperate policy not enabling technology issue,
   (assuming there's no auto detect on eg known list names).
   
   Though as some ports have mail list dedicated to one port, some
   human maintainers may want to add a list name as eg a secondary
   Maintainer, & some ports just with a list might get a human
   appended.

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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