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Date:      Tue, 5 Jul 2022 09:55:55 -0500
From:      Dmitri Goutnik <dmgk@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, "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
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Hi Alexey,

On 22-07-05 14:41:05, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 04:21:24PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 02:08:32PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev 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.
> > >=20
> > > "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.
> >=20
> > The Created by is unfair
>=20
> Why?

Because as you noted elsewhere, creating new ports is hard and the result i=
s=20
rarely perfect on the first try. "Created by" is unfair because it ignores =
=20
work of all contributors and maintainers that brought the port to its curre=
nt=20
state.

At this point, "Created by" is mostly a visual noise that doesn't carry any=
=20
useful information. Especially after the transition to git as (most) commit=
s=20
are now properly attributed by the --author flag. If you care about the por=
t=20
history, it's just "git log -- path/to/Makefile" away.


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Dmitri Goutnik
dg@syrec.org / dmgk@FreeBSD.org

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