From owner-svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Wed Jul 22 13:55:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF649A74C3; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:55:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gahr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.ptrcrt.ch (ptrcrt.ch [37.252.124.203]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27FAB152B; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:55:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gahr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from webmail.ptrcrt.ch (192.168.1.2 [192.168.1.2]); by mail.ptrcrt.ch (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id f36adb68; TLS version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:55:06 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:55:06 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti To: marino@freebsd.org Cc: Mathieu Arnold , Alexey Dokuchaev , ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, owner-ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r392666 - head/audio/libgroove Organization: The FreeBSD Project In-Reply-To: <55AF9FA8.1030102@marino.st> References: <201507220652.t6M6qVFO094263@repo.freebsd.org> <20150722122313.GA50653@FreeBSD.org> <20150722122531.GB50653@FreeBSD.org> <55AF9AAC.8000106@marino.st> <9e0f61d80cec95a2ff54af98f1421878@gahr.ch> <55AF9C0C.9040601@marino.st> <32BB3B72522CB1110A06CC56@ogg.in.absolight.net> <55AF9FA8.1030102@marino.st> Message-ID: <3ffcf1791ab676bb611bc3989825e8e7@gahr.ch> X-Sender: gahr@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.2 X-BeenThere: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:55:10 -0000 On 2015-07-22 15:50, John Marino wrote: > On 7/22/2015 3:43 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >> +--On 22 juillet 2015 15:35:08 +0200 John Marino >> wrote: >> | I knew that's what you meant, and that's what I'm talking about. >> The >> | expanded name is the defacto standard and this was hammered into me >> | during mentering. You're going out of your way to go against this >> | without explaining why, so I'm curious as to why. Danfe just didn't >> | make this up. >> >> The documentation says: >> >> If this line is present, future maintainers must >> not change or remove it except at the original author's >> request. >> >> So, I am wondering, what part of that sentence do all of you not get ? >> Is >> the "MUST NOT CHANGE OR REMOVE" not clear ? Of course, il only talks >> about >> future maintainers, I assume that committers understand that it >> applies to >> them even if they're not the maintainer. >> > > The intent is not clear. I assumed that "no change" was trying to > ensure credit was not lost. However, if the original email address was > gone, or some kind of nickname is used, I would have assumed that is > modifiable. > > Nothing is magic about this line; it's not even mandatory. So if you > are clarifying it is immutatable, then I'd like the reason documented > because it now escapes me. I was given the benefit of the doubt over > the literal meaning. The literal I don't think is good. > > So now please explain why it can't be changed if credit is maintained? Can my "Created by:" line be put back as it was, while you figure out an answer to your question, and while discussion is ongoing on whether the PHB must be changed according to your interpretation? -- Pietro Cerutti gahr@FreeBSD.org