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Date:      Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:43:20 -0500
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, marino@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r422505 - head/archivers/snappy-java
Message-ID:  <202c3516-4c9e-971f-eddc-e3eb904f1ff7@marino.st>
In-Reply-To: <1db2352b-f6b6-ba58-d18d-7d1eac5c4c0f@FreeBSD.org>
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On 9/21/2016 08:39, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 21/09/2016 à 15:19, John Marino a écrit :
>> On 9/21/2016 03:19, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>>> Le 20/09/2016 à 17:19, John Marino a écrit :
>>>> Author: marino
>>>> Date: Tue Sep 20 15:19:52 2016
>>>> New Revision: 422505
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/422505
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>   archivers/snappy-java: new fedora MASTER_SITE to unbreak
>>>
>>> I'm picking a commit at random.
>>>
>>> If our distcache is not a valid upstream, then someone else's distcache
>>> is not either.
>>
>> It doesn't look like a cache to me.  It looks like that, unlike
>> FreeBSD, they keep a copy of distribution tarballs that they use.
>> It's not a cache, but a primary repository.
>>
>> That's what it looks like to me.  If you know that it's definitively
>> just a cache, that might change the story.
>
> From what I can gather, it is the cache fedora uses for building their
> packages, a bit like what our distcache is. So, well, yes, it is a
> cache. Like the ubuntu cache you are also using on launchpad.net. or the
> rpmfusion thing you also found.
>
> Trying to go around every rule and policy we have is really getting old.
>

I'm trying to help.

What is getting old is being accused by project leadership of being a 
jerk when all I am doing is spending a LOT of my personal time trying to 
help everyone.

Actually, can I ask you to consult the Code of Conduct here?

your "gather" is equal to my "gather".  It's not definitive.
It also puts FreeBSD distcache back in the backup role, which is the 
primary discriminator for marking a port broken.

John








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