On 18 May 2018 at 11:20, Kurt Jaeger <li...@opsec.eu> 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 ?
My point is that the custom patch pre-fills the field, which is why submitters often see it filled when they don't expect it: the committer doesn't do it by hand. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
