Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 13:58:36 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Charlie Li <vishwin@freebsd.org> Cc: Jochen Neumeister <joneum@freebsd.org>, 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: <YsRDjN8YIlgE7m5b@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <27f250c0-21ee-1b7b-8d37-708c55c3508f@freebsd.org> 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>
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On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 09:07:54AM -0400, Charlie Li wrote: > Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > It does not matter. I've created this port and committed it originally, > > I've invested my time and maintained it for a while. Even if you decide > > to throw any of that work (which would be kind of rude on its own, as it > > was good work), the line should stay. > > Again, no you did not. I invested years more than you not only with this > but the rest of Cinnamon. You were able to commit your version and not > what had been worked on (and ran as a daily driver in more scenarios) > because I was not a committer back then, not being aware of this prior > art and gnome@'s short-staffing. Charlie, The Ports Tree is a collective work, an iterative, ongoing development. Various people bring their bits here and there, some of those people lay the first stone, and had the right to mark it as such. Even if someone decides to replace their work later on, the stone stays still. But then again: we don't just throw away prior work and replace it with our own; this is rude, disrespectful to previous contributors, and could easily turn people from making new ports. I'm not sure if I should be apologizing for committing the port before you, but that what had happened. Now I'd like to keep my attribution intact, as I do towards everyone else. ./danfe
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