Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:13:08 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD asking contributors to fix their opinions - is it official? Message-ID: <20200321131308.a59d3cfec38913369da67b67@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20200321122609.GB5709@schmorp.de> References: <20200321122609.GB5709@schmorp.de>
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On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:26:09 +0100 Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de> wrote: > Hi! > > This is a request to clarify official policy of the FreeBSD project with I do not speak for the FreeBSD project, but I've been around since 1.1 days. > regards to regulating opinions - if this list is not the right list to > ask this question, I would be extremely happy if people could direct me > ot a more appropriate forum - I didn't find anything that seemed more > appropriate, so I am posting to this list. Apologies if this was wrong. Not a bad place to start. > Moving along, today, I received a mail[1] by some adamw@freebsd.org, adamw@ does post frequently in various forums - the address is genuine. > asking me to remove what "FreeBSD" perceives to be personal opinions from > my perl module, Canary::Stability[2]. Hmm, there are no patches in the port for that package > FreeBSD has had to go to lengths to fix Canary::Stability. If you > really are married to the module, can you please [...] remove the > personal opinions? There are no patches in the port so 'FreeBSD' has not 'fixed' anything. The only FreeBSD addition appears to be a stub Stability.pm. At any rate it is the port maintainer's responsibility to create patches not 'FreeBSD'. > If I read this correctly, he is acting in a capacity officially > representing FreeBSD in that matter and seems to indicate that the FreeBSD > project needs to police what it perceives as personal opinions. In fact, > it seems to be the most urgent and pressing matter, as nothing else of > substance was written. I think someone is using his address to be a PITA. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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