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Date:      Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:11:17 +0200
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
Cc:        marino@freebsd.org, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r422505 - head/archivers/snappy-java
Message-ID:  <20160921211117.54166e17@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
In-Reply-To: <3a8164b8-e15d-b955-05fc-3d817d1168d7@marino.st>
References:  <201609201519.u8KFJrTF059560@repo.freebsd.org> <ec547bd4-0930-f39c-7a36-6462c7ad4517@FreeBSD.org> <3bbaf8af-e9d0-9fce-b103-2055bdce8e18@marino.st> <1db2352b-f6b6-ba58-d18d-7d1eac5c4c0f@FreeBSD.org> <202c3516-4c9e-971f-eddc-e3eb904f1ff7@marino.st> <92a0385e-13ac-0a43-4761-103ffa2e9961@FreeBSD.org> <9f4ce30a-70a4-f668-50e0-a35be78b5032@marino.st> <1b891572-9be2-f658-2942-42f5f6168c3d@FreeBSD.org> <3a8164b8-e15d-b955-05fc-3d817d1168d7@marino.st>

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On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:11:51 -0500 John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> =
wrote:
> On 9/21/2016 09:05, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> Le 21/09/2016 =C3=A0 15:56, John Marino a =C3=A9crit : =20
>>> Maybe it's time for portmgr to research this and publish a list of
>>> forbidden upstreams if they find it really is a cache and find they
>>> really don't want it. =20
>>
>> No. Like I already told you on another subject, we are not a law firm.
>> We are not turning the Porter's Handbook into a 35k pages and 42 annexes
>> ISO9000 monstruosity.
>> You have to use common sense.
>> A cache is a cache, and it is not suitable as an upstream.
>=20
> It's not about law, it's about rules and procedure.
> I come from an operational environment where everything is CONCISELY=20
> documented (the handbook is not so different).  Currently, what I did is=
=20
> allowed by the rules and IMO it's not underhanded at all.  It was done=20
> with the best of intentions.
>=20
> You, as portmgr, have no right at all to either accuse me of being=20
> underhanded or getting angry about my legitimate solution which, IMO,=20
> makes perfect sense.  If the criteria is common sense, I met that=20
> criteria with flying colors and you've got no standing other than your=20
> own "common" sense that I'm wrong.
>=20
> Stop slighting the legal profession.  This is something that requires=20
> more guidelines than is available, and as a member of both documentation=
=20
> and portmgr, you have the ability to improve it.

I would say using Fedora's cache is leeching and not very nice.  On the
other hand I wouldn't have marked the ports broken.  Use of our distcache
for 14 days should be acceptable.  After that you can mark it broken.

I also think that broken ports shouldn't be fixed until a user shows up
and we know somebody actually cares.  Spending committer time and build
time on something nobody uses is a waste.



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