Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 15:49:17 +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: <YsRdfY8ie4Qjd3vd@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3daf4d2f-bb70-ce8f-3873-75e2445906b7@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> <YsRDjN8YIlgE7m5b@FreeBSD.org> <3daf4d2f-bb70-ce8f-3873-75e2445906b7@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 10:20:54AM -0400, Charlie Li wrote: > Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > 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. > > As a non-committer back then, actions like yours that completely ignored > prior (by years) art that was worked on in an official project workspace I did not *ignore* anything, Charlie, and find your rhetoric unjust. :( While I usually grep Bugzilla for new ports I want to commit (and when I find one, I'd use it and give proper attribution), I could not keep track of every external repo and the work that's happening there. Again, it was a small library and three *leaf* ports. Nothing infrastructural, or affecting two thirds of the tree, or unfixable with a small patch. I don't see how these four ports could not be integrated in your big WIP Cinnamon tree (at any time). > certainly deterred me from continuing to contribute to the "collective > work" for a bit. These feelings of deterrence will not necessarily get > verbalised, especially not in the moment. Okay, maybe not in the moment, but the question still stands: if someone commits something faster than you, and this gives you that feeling of deterrence from continuing to contribute -- how shall we all work together then? You'd keep a list of things you plan to port and ask people to stay out of this domain for indefinite period of time? ./danfe
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