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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:32:12 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org,  cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/p5-DateTime-TimeZone Makefile distinfo
Message-ID:  <4ADE022C.5050108@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091019214816.GA41440@heechee.tobez.org>
References:  <200910190846.n9J8kC7n024281@repoman.freebsd.org> <4ADCD36B.8080607@FreeBSD.org> <20091019214816.GA41440@heechee.tobez.org>

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Anton Berezin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 02:00:27PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Anton Berezin wrote:
>>> tobez       2009-10-19 08:46:12 UTC
>>>
>>>   FreeBSD ports repository
>>>
>>>   Modified files:
>>>     devel/p5-DateTime-TimeZone Makefile distinfo 
>>>   Log:
>>>   Update to 1.00.
>>>   
>>>   Changes:        http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-TimeZone/Changes
>>>   It would appear that CPAN indexer has not picked up this release yet,
>>>   so the relevant changes are listed here:
>>>   
>>>     This release adds a patch from Debian (http://bugs.debian.org/551195)
>>>     for Argentina. Argentina's ...
>>
>> Even when quoting I would argue that including insulting comments is
>> probably not appropriate.
> 
> I admit I did not think about appropriateness of the phrase I quoted from
> the Changes file.

No worries, these things happen. :)

> In the future I will try to limit myself to putting just the links to the
> upstream documents so that I can safely avoid the need to ponder over
> appropriateness of various turns of phrase in the technical documentation I
> did not write.

Well IMO that's going too far the other direction. IMO it's nice to
have a brief summary of the update in the commit logs, and we can't
rely on other people's web sites to be around forever.


Doug

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