[HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles, take two

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas Abthorpe
It was recently posted on, http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2012/09/01/change-to-the-header-in-ports-makefiles/ that we would adopt a new header for the ports Makefiles. The initial discussion seemed to show enough support for the idea of completely stripping the header, leaving only the

Re: [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles, take two

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas Abthorpe
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 04:22:45PM +, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: [...] Sometimes, as a result of a repocopy, or changed maintainership, the Created By and MAINTAINER is no longer in synchronisation. To avoid confusion, the first line can be removed, to ensure only the MAINTAINER is

Re: [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles

2012-09-01 Thread olli hauer
On 2012-09-01 08:42, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: An idea has been floating around for some time, and it was brought up again on the ports@ mailing list recently, please remove the extraneous header information from the Makefile, leaving only the $FreeBSD$ id on the first line. It is an idea that

Re: [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles

2012-09-01 Thread Jason E. Hale
On Saturday, September 01, 2012 06:42:57 Thomas Abthorpe wrote: Also bear in mind that Redports/QAT queues a job for every change done to a Makefile, we do not want to overburden the QAT at this time. It is important to allow this service to run at peek efficiency at this time to ensure it's

Re: [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles

2012-09-01 Thread Thomas Abthorpe
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 07:27:40AM -0400, Jason E. Hale wrote: On Saturday, September 01, 2012 06:42:57 Thomas Abthorpe wrote: Also bear in mind that Redports/QAT queues a job for every change done to a Makefile, we do not want to overburden the QAT at this time. It is important to allow

Re: [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles

2012-09-01 Thread Thomas Abthorpe
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 06:42:57AM +, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: An idea has been floating around for some time, and it was brought up again on the ports@ mailing list recently, please remove the extraneous header information from the Makefile, leaving only the $FreeBSD$ id on the first line.

Re: [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles

2012-09-01 Thread Janketh Jay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As far as I'm concerned, the commiters will take care of this when they need to. Leaving current port headers in-tact is the best way to go regardless of this discussion... On 09/01/2012 10:00 PM, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at