Sorry for not replying earlier, I had a lot of work to do. We had the discussion about extra fork for ports on the FreeBSD forums too (few days ago) and they suggested redports. I didn't know before that such a thing already existed, so it's okay. I apologize for not reasearching the matter more thoroughly before.
The arguments that John presented are sound and good. I understand now, why you don't want to officially endorse such an idea. I will give reports a chance and see what goes. In any case, thanks for the replies! Jože 2013/6/13 Julian H. Stacey <j...@berklix.com> > Hi, Reference: > > From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Jo=BEe_Zobec?= <jozze.z...@gmail.com> > > Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:04:30 +0200 > > > Apart from the maintainer of the port, there would also be "sub" > > maintainerswhich would be those people who helped patch the port into the > > good shape: > > > > # make -C /usr/ports/section/someport maintainer > > > > would return the maintainer (1st address) and additional addresses to > turn > > for questions. When the port would be committed to the "good" ports tree, > > sub-maintainers would be left out. > > Maybe it'd help to break jozze.zepl's suggestions in to 2 parts ? > - Working & non working ports tree > (No comment from me on that) > > - Multiple maintainers > > I believe MAINTAINER= value is currently a unitary mail address, which > is [usually] an individual or a freebsd mail list. > I recall before we've discussed adding names of alternates/ extras, > (perhaps comma seperated), & that some who maintain > .mk macros & shell scripts pointed out some difficulties if changed. > > Even within the current unchanged syntax, > handfulls of maintainers might already co-operate on a per port basis, > with eg > MAINTAINER=port_xyz_maintain...@their-domain.com > > their-domain.com /etc/mail/aliases: > port_xyz_maintainers: port_xyz_maint0, port_xyz_maint1 > port_xyz_maint0: j...@upthehill.com > port_xyz_maint1: j...@downthehill.com > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich > http://berklix.com > Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". > Send plain text. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, > multipart/alternative. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
