On 5/18/18 14:20, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > >>>>>> The FreeBSD project could help by asking committers to qualify >>>>>> "Sponsored by" lines to indicate which participant(s) is(are) sponsored, >>>>>> in way that is equivalent to the way that the actual work itself is >>>>>> customarily attributed. > >>>>> This sounds reasonable, so I suggest that you submit a >>>>> patch to the ports handbook that describes it for maintainers >>>>> and committers. > >>>> One thing to note: FreeBSD has a custom patch to subversion to detect >>>> "ORGANIZATION_NAME" and automatically append it to the default >>>> template. This is likely why its getting added in unexpected places. > >>> How do you think I should handle that in my forthcoming doc patch? Is >>> there a related bug I should file against services? > >> Its a client side patch of the subversion binary. I'm not sure the >> best way to handle it beyond perhaps changing the template a bit? > > What change would be needed ? There's already a Sponsored by field ? > > The custom patch is here: > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/subversion/files/extra-patch-fbsd-template?revision=411397&view=markup
I agree that this won't necessarily need to change. If anything, a very small reminder to committers, or suggestive wording change, to fix-up the the sponsorship line when applicable. I will submit a separate bug with a candidate change that depends on the doc bug. I won't mind if the doc bug is accepted and the subversion portbug is closed WONTFIX upon review. -- John W. O'Brien OpenPGP keys: 0x33C4D64B895DBF3B
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