Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 18:12:01 +0000 From: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Status of portupgrade and portmaster? Message-ID: <BN6PR2001MB1730CE7739EB79212E56F949807F0@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1ukz_gn3Ny4J52qoq0KjGmvDxLEZrBenXPA7o-YC%2BHSyg@mail.gmail.com> References: <81D84A650858BA40BF6936408052E6BC0138263988@msgdb11.utad.utoledo.edu> <k20i-pniy-wny@FreeBSD.org> <20170929182305.GE86601@home.opsec.eu> <20170929183448.GA175@gmail.com> <77334fc4-b64e-45ed-a443-4076e47acee3@BY2NAM03FT029.eop-NAM03.prod.protection.outlook.com> <BN6PR2001MB173012B1DBBC7BB0A900DAA2807E0@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <COL004-MC4F55p68V8z000ac00b@COL004-MC4F55.hotmail.com> <BN6PR2001MB17309E4F64000C0C00DA086D807F0@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <CAN6yY1ukz_gn3Ny4J52qoq0KjGmvDxLEZrBenXPA7o-YC%2BHSyg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 10:06:17 -0700, Kevin Oberman stated: >On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 3:34 AM, Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> wrote: > >> >> Excuse my ignorance, but why was John Marino exiled? >> >> =20 >Not to state any opinion of my own, but John had his commit bit pulled >after a long mail dialog about the utility of synth as a complete >replacement for all older port updating tools save poudriere. It was >claimed that John's messages were abusive and in violation of the FreeBSD >"Code of Conduct". It is unclear to me whether this was in regard to pots >to the mailing lists or included private responses to the mail list >discussions. > >Core reviewed the messages and agreed that they were unacceptable. John >disagreed and declined to retract his statements, so Core voted to withdra= w >his commit bit. > >The public details are available in the mail archives. > >John did state that he would continue to support synth. I can't say if he >has continued to make contributions. In any case, only poudriere is >available for maintaining ports in HEAD and I, for one, feel that it is >simply unacceptable as it make FreeBSD unusable for those of us with only >"small" systems where the weight poudriere simply can't be justified. (I >have no system with other than SATA disk drives and, for my current needs, >1 TB of SATA on my development system and .5TB on my production system is >adequate. Both systems are physically constrained in expansion capability, >though otherwise easily meet my requirements. > >As a result, I am no longer able to track HEAD and, if the issue is not >resolved in some manner before 11 support ends, will be forced to move fro= m >FreeBSD after an using it for over 2 decades. I certainly hope that this i= s >not what happens. I could not agree more. If this matter is not resolved before FBSD 12 is released, I will have to start looking for a replacement for FBSD. --=20 Carmel
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