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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2022 03:32:30 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 2fc48fb6f70b - main - CHANGES: document removal of 'Created by' lines.
Message-ID:  <YtjIzvXeRkE4fjh2@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202207201310.26KDASNG037023@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202207201310.26KDASNG037023@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 01:10:28PM +0000, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> commit 2fc48fb6f70b4b0a6f0ccdba18ed856676f0268d
> 
>   CHANGES: document removal of 'Created by' lines.
> 
>   Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35023
>   With hat:       portmgr
> 
> +20220722:
> +AUTHOR: portmgr@FreeBSD.org
> +
> +  'Created by' are being removed from the ports makefiles.
> +
> +  Created by lines have historically been used to attribute contributions
> +  to the original creators of the ports. However, those might no longer
> +  be contributing to the port

How does "might no longer be" justifies removing *all* of them, without the
consent of those people?  How am I supposed to record port creators now?
Or do you propose polluting every port with some "created-by" file instead?
How is it better than simple Makefile comment?  (inb4 "this information is
in git": no one would be digging the repo for that, it should be clearly
displayed in the working copy somewhere.)

./danfe



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