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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:43:06 +0100
From:      Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@critical.ch>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r346114 - head/devel/p4.el
Message-ID:  <20140310154306.8c89f238ed6569f05981a9c6@critical.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20140310143515.GB92282@FreeBSD.org>
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Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:16:59PM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> > ports-policy-change-announce@ comes to mind :) Has anybody else
> > ever felt the desire to get notified whenever a policy is updated?
> > Just to avoid having to skim through commit logs.
> 
> It's getting a bit ridiculuos, no?
>
> Guys, nothing was discussed thus far which does not come naturally
> from common sense.  Certainly there are few special cases that
> require deeper analysis (e.g. proper, legally-clean LICENSE
> handling), but from what I see, most of "please don't/do
> this-or-that" stuff comes from negligence rather than deliberate
> dissent from PHB or common practices.  If every committer would
> review *entire* Makefile before 'svn ci', there would be presumably
> less messages on the lists. :)

This is rediculous. I am currently trying to bring down the count of
unstaged ports. If I see things right away I will fix them with it but
asking me/us to fix EVERY possible flaw is like saying: Just because
you fix the tire you're responsible to fix every other part of the car.

Emanuel



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