Easy, easy! This is not another project rename endeavor nor another host migration, relax and breathe easy now! ;-) It is, however, a call to standardize the name string we use to identify this project we work on. We are "MacPorts", sure... but, actually, that's really the name of the software we make and love ;-) There are any number of iterations of that string (plain & flat "MacPorts", "The MacPorts Team", "The MacPorts Organization", "The MacPorts Group", who-knows-what-else) strewn out all over our sources, documentation and web pages whenever it comes to identifying "us", the group that works on putting together that "MacPorts" software. Even though this mess is not a project life threatening issue, it certainly does not help to consolidate an identity... or at least that of a non-schizophrenic software project! So on behalf of exactly that, our project identity, I would like to ask all of us to standardize on a single name string whenever there's a need to identify our group : "The MacPorts Project". Not too formal -- we're not a legal entity--, not too informal -- we are definitely serious about our work! As a Portmgr petition, I would like to ask you all to start using this name when crediting our organization in whatever work you do for the project. Also, as a side note, a couple of guidelines for work crediting and copyright attribution: 1) If you contribute a new software module and/or a new source file in an existing module of our project, and you can attribute all that work to yourself, then please by all means credit yourself in the file (s) headers with a copyright notice (or notices in case more than one individual participated). Among other things, this helps us to quickly find all those that were involved in creating whatever source file. One exception to this guideline should probably be our Portfiles, since those are partly meant for human eyes consumption and we should keep the boilerplate (comment cruft) to a minimum. 2) If you instead contribute a sizable patch to an existing source file (either a bug fix or feature enhancement), then also feel free to attribute yourself a copyright notice on the file header. An exception for this second guideline should be when doing small things like simple code refactoring, whitespace cleanups, one/two-liner bug fixes, etc... Crediting all of these is in my opinion unnecessary and would create unmanageable file headers, among other things. 3) If this work in which you credit yourself is uploaded to the "base" component of our repository, then you are clearly *contributing* it to the project. Therefore, a credit line for the project itself, with our standardized name of course, is desirable. If you are more versed on the legal aspects of licensing and the sort than us, and you find anything that may feel uncomfortable in our petitions, then by all means feel free to raise your concerns. But in any case lets please try to stick to the spirit outlined here, thank you! Regards to all and thank you for your help and support! -jmpp, on behalf of Portmgr