Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 16:21:24 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@gmail.com>, 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: <20220705142124.mq5nvdqrzghqruxd@aniel.nours.eu> In-Reply-To: <YsRF4DBSpDSfpbdH@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> <CAOshKtfP=rzbHsSV-6GcC-g1z4BWvnVgg4tpJAYL2aykf31wGg@mail.gmail.com> <YsRF4DBSpDSfpbdH@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 02:08:32PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > 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 The Created by is unfair and it has been explained many many times, the courtesis for the people who port new software or btw any contributors is https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributors/#contrib-additional Best regards, Bapt
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