GitHub usernames in maintainers field

[Eitan Adler]

On 2 February 2017 at 08:33, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> MacPorts 2.3.5 added the ability to list GitHub usernames as well as email
> addresses in the maintainers field of Portfiles. Basically instead of this:
>
> maintainers     jmr openmaintainer
>
> you can do this:
>
> maintainers     {jmr @jmroot} openmaintainer

Why did we choose to do it this way instead of a central list of email
-> github mapping? This method requires some level of replication.



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Eitan Adler