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Date:      Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:11:51 -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:  <3a8164b8-e15d-b955-05fc-3d817d1168d7@marino.st>
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On 9/21/2016 09:05, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 21/09/2016 à 15:56, John Marino a écrit :
>> Maybe it's time for portmgr to research this and publish a list of
>> forbidden upstreams if they find it really is a cache and find they
>> really don't want it.
>
> No. Like I already told you on another subject, we are not a law firm.
> We are not turning the Porter's Handbook into a 35k pages and 42 annexes
> ISO9000 monstruosity.
> You have to use common sense.
> A cache is a cache, and it is not suitable as an upstream.
>

It's not about law, it's about rules and procedure.
I come from an operational environment where everything is CONCISELY 
documented (the handbook is not so different).  Currently, what I did is 
allowed by the rules and IMO it's not underhanded at all.  It was done 
with the best of intentions.

You, as portmgr, have no right at all to either accuse me of being 
underhanded or getting angry about my legitimate solution which, IMO, 
makes perfect sense.  If the criteria is common sense, I met that 
criteria with flying colors and you've got no standing other than your 
own "common" sense that I'm wrong.

Stop slighting the legal profession.  This is something that requires 
more guidelines than is available, and as a member of both documentation 
and portmgr, you have the ability to improve it.

John



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