Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 14:08:32 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@gmail.com> Cc: Charlie Li <vishwin@freebsd.org>, Jochen Neumeister <joneum@freebsd.org>, ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: d128a409234d - main - editors/xed: update to 3.2.4 Message-ID: <YsRF4DBSpDSfpbdH@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAOshKtfP=rzbHsSV-6GcC-g1z4BWvnVgg4tpJAYL2aykf31wGg@mail.gmail.com> References: <202207050044.2650iTZn005846@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <YsOkXBq8xuCjVR/Q@FreeBSD.org> <9d70934e-2267-998a-e445-0141447bf6c4@freebsd.org> <b672dcc1-ba4e-bd79-ee93-ec10030704a3@FreeBSD.org> <YsQ2z1Y4xjvXbsdj@FreeBSD.org> <27f250c0-21ee-1b7b-8d37-708c55c3508f@freebsd.org> <CAOshKtfP=rzbHsSV-6GcC-g1z4BWvnVgg4tpJAYL2aykf31wGg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 03:26:40PM +0200, Tobias C. Berner wrote: > To cut in on this discussion: as my message to ports@ hinted, portmgr > is intending to get rid of those lines completely in the next months. > We have a version control system, and attribution to the original > creators is, and will always be there. Well, no, I'd like to see those "Created by:" lines in the Makefiles. They give you the immediate history feeling, they create nice visual separation of the PORTNAME from the top of the file, and last but not least, this is part of what motivates people to create new ports, and they want their name to be seen upfront, not digged out from the VCS. > For the reasoning: > A person just glancing at makefiles will do wrong attribution, when > the 'Created by' line is there, as they don't necessarily have the > history. "Created by" is not "maintainer", it's the Porject's courtesy to those who port new software. Depriving people from seeing it sends a rather demotivating signal to new contributors. ./danfe
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