Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 17:33:18 +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: <YsR13mtDzuWUOkoy@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: > ... > 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. > All the work that people like Charlie do is marked down by those. I've been thinking about this paragraph and it does not make much sense to me, esp. the last sentence. Let's spell out the situation, again, in chronological order: 0. vishwin@ works on Cinnamon ports since 2018 in a serapate repo; it's cooking but somewhat slowly, gnome@ is understaffed, etc. 1. someone adds a port, good solid work, not those "dump something quick and let others fix the mess" type of thing, in 2020, unaware of the freebsd-ports-gnome repo; 2. life goes on, port gets updated (by that someone), feedback gets incorporated, the port goes under gnome@ wing after some time to ease the maintenance; 3. mid-2022, vishwin@ replaces the port because, well, "the new port lineage comes from the freebsd-ports-gnome repo since 2018, not what not what was committed since 2020", essentially throwing away prior work as having no value, but without providing any technical backup to this claim, while the diff suggests that development was pretty much colinear (as often happens with simple programs). So you guys think this is okay, and on that merit want to strip us off the creator tag? And exactly how "the work that people like Charlie do" justifies replacing literally the same code accidently done (but done well) by someone else? What are we, as a Project, doing to protect the work of our contributors? ./danfe
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