From owner-svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 18:45:07 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 1E9E258C; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:45:07 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:45:07 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Baptiste Daroussin Subject: Re: svn commit: r358722 - head/Mk Message-ID: <20140623184507.GA55530@FreeBSD.org> References: <201406211708.s5LH8ZvE087036@svn.freebsd.org> <20140623124533.GP23976@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20140623165459.GR23976@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140623165459.GR23976@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: Mathieu Arnold , svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler , ports-committers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:45:07 -0000 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:54:59PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 09:37:25AM -0700, Eitan Adler wrote: > > I'll copy what I wrote on phabricator: > > > > If anything, the recent commits proved that this statement is exactly > > opposite of what it should be. > > > > People add entries too easily, not realizing that this file is just a > > default. This means that new entries are often too general or useless. > > > > Also, people are too discouraged to change the descriptions when they > > are useless. > > > That is your opinion other people have a different opinion here Guys, come on. There's no need to fight here. As one of the authors of a large fraction of those descriptions, I can tell you that there's nothing hard about keeping them precise yet elaborative enough. Few occasional mistakes is just a normal workflow: see it, argue on it, fix it. ./danfe