Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:50:32 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, marino@freebsd.org, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r392666 - head/audio/libgroove Message-ID: <55AF9FA8.1030102@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <32BB3B72522CB1110A06CC56@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: <201507220652.t6M6qVFO094263@repo.freebsd.org> <d4dfd69de717fd8d4e5ef472408644e1@gahr.ch> <20150722122313.GA50653@FreeBSD.org> <20150722122531.GB50653@FreeBSD.org> <de0f94bb48432295c450da4dffbd4ba6@gahr.ch> <55AF9AAC.8000106@marino.st> <9e0f61d80cec95a2ff54af98f1421878@gahr.ch> <55AF9C0C.9040601@marino.st> <32BB3B72522CB1110A06CC56@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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On 7/22/2015 3:43 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > +--On 22 juillet 2015 15:35:08 +0200 John Marino > <freebsd.contact@marino.st> wrote: > | I knew that's what you meant, and that's what I'm talking about. The > | expanded name is the defacto standard and this was hammered into me > | during mentering. You're going out of your way to go against this > | without explaining why, so I'm curious as to why. Danfe just didn't > | make this up. > > The documentation says: > > If this line is present, future maintainers must > not change or remove it except at the original author's request. > > So, I am wondering, what part of that sentence do all of you not get ? Is > the "MUST NOT CHANGE OR REMOVE" not clear ? Of course, il only talks about > future maintainers, I assume that committers understand that it applies to > them even if they're not the maintainer. > The intent is not clear. I assumed that "no change" was trying to ensure credit was not lost. However, if the original email address was gone, or some kind of nickname is used, I would have assumed that is modifiable. Nothing is magic about this line; it's not even mandatory. So if you are clarifying it is immutatable, then I'd like the reason documented because it now escapes me. I was given the benefit of the doubt over the literal meaning. The literal I don't think is good. So now please explain why it can't be changed if credit is maintained? John
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