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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:24:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r329853 - in head: lib/libifconfig share/examples/libifconfig usr.sbin/wlandebug
Message-ID:  <201802231624.w1NGOHEd096528@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2i0do=mWa_ODLB10pCDrhJU%2BUL%2B-ChhiRKmk_7WHvyvRg@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > > Author: asomers
> > > Date: Fri Feb 23 03:11:43 2018
> > > New Revision: 329853
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/329853
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   libifconfig: multiple feature additions
> > >
> > >   Added the ability to:
> > >
> > >   * Create virtual interfaces
> > >   * Create vlan interfaces
> > >   * Get interface fib
> > >   * Get interface groups
> > >   * Get interface status
> > >   * Get nd6 info
> > >   * Get media status
> > >   * Get additional ifaddr info in a convenient struct
> > >   * Get vhids
> > >   * Get carp info
> > >   * Get lagg and laggport status
> > >   * Iterate over all interfaces and ifaddrs
> >
> > Love that list!!!
> > >
> > >   And add more examples, too.
> >
> > Remove MIT 1996 Copyright?
> > Under what conditions is it that this is being done?
> >
> 
> The file's original author removed the extra license block.  It probably
> shouldn't have been there to begin with.
> https://github.com/Savagedlight/libifconfig/commit/92fa671bd2451c11c9f1abf68b56295a05af2c85#diff-d2b1298dd60d9c72a5776c8d57a7fe78

A good commit message summarize ALL changes, sighting the fact
that the MIT copyright was being removed, and with the pointer
to this external source (probalby should of been listed in an
obtained from: line both here in the commit log and in the 
differential.)

> > >   Note that this is a backwards-incompatible change. But that's ok,
> > because it's
> > >   a private library.
> > >
> > >   MFC after:  3 weeks
> > >   Sponsored by:       Spectra Logic Corp
> > >   Differential Revision:      https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14463
> >
> > With 0 feed back?  And a ~30 hour life time?  It is not a diffential if
> > no one looks at, comments on, or accepts the revision.
> >
> >
> Actually, it's been under review for nearly nine months, but on Github, not
> Phabricator.  You see, the original author lacks a commit bit, and has
> developed this library out-of-tree.  It's time we brought it back in,
> though.  I know the Phabricator review didn't last very long, but I have a
> time limitation on my end.  Feel free to tear it apart in post-commit
> review, if you like.
> 
> https://github.com/Savagedlight/libifconfig/pull/46

You failed to sight this external developer as well, that should always
be done in a commit message!

A quick easy fix would be simply add some comments
to the differential that sight both the 2 external links above,
and please appologize to Savageedlight for failing to attribe
them in this commit message.  The commit references the differential,
so that would lead someone down the right road in the future.

Thanks,
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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