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Date:      Fri, 28 May 2021 13:26:47 +1000
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Neel Chauhan <nc@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        portmgr@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org, desktop@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: An apology about my commits
Message-ID:  <94b58596-8721-ddef-3137-bbedd762bd17@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <303b9900-d008-78a7-b3bf-ffb33284a4ee@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <600673282f5cd5864a67655c4e156f26@freebsd.org> <303b9900-d008-78a7-b3bf-ffb33284a4ee@FreeBSD.org>

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On 28/05/2021 1:25 pm, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 28/05/2021 1:19 pm, Neel Chauhan wrote:
>> Hi freebsd-ports@, ports-committers@,
>>
>> I hope all is well with you.
>>
>> You may know I have prematurely made Ports commits without review, 
>> namely 507359c509389602b4060b2c5e203c99911c3578 and 
>> 0bc7478682b2d7c9393f2dd095d99072070a2f65.
>>
>> I'm really sorry if I pushed these commits without approval.
>>
>> I feel extremely guilty for making these commits without approval, and 
>> almost felt I will lose my commit bit. I even thought at times that I 
>> will have to switch my PCs/servers to Windows or Linux if all goes 
>> wrong since I will feel shame for even **using** FreeBSD [1].
>>
>> Next time, I will try not to bypass review, especially for big commits 
>> that touch major packages like devel/glib20.
>>
>> However, to unbreak the fetching for GNOME Ports that have been 
>> updated to 40.x, we will need to make one change to Mk/bsd.sites.mk. 
>> This patch is in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30514 . This may need 
>> portmgr approval, but I won't commit it without approval.
>>
>> Happy hacking!
>>
>> -Neel Chauhan (nc@)
>>
>> Footnotes:
>>
>> [1] - For reference, I work at Microsoft and use Windows at work, but 
>> used FreeBSD almost exclusively at home since 2012, back when I was 
>> only 15 (I'm 24 now), and more-or-less the only server OS I have run 
>> my home servers on since I set that up in 2013.
> 
> It's your thoughts and care that count Neel, don't feel guilty.
> 
> The responses you received could have been a bit more 'matter of fact'.
> 
> What was *actually* important about the replies was 'we should be QA'ing 
> everything and getting more than one persons eyes on things'.
> 
> 
> Note (for everyone), some of the biggest impacts are caused by the 
> smallest commits.
> 
> The idea of a 'trivial update' needs to be related to the dustbin, and 
> we're still hearing it often.

ugh, relegated*



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