From owner-svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Wed Jul 22 14:04:51 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 E44689A7709; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:04:51 +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 3B5331CCC; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:04:49 +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 ee2fdd4f; TLS version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:04:47 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:04:47 +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: <55AFA1EE.8020004@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> <3ffcf1791ab676bb611bc3989825e8e7@gahr.ch> <55AFA1EE.8020004@marino.st> Message-ID: 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 14:04:52 -0000 On 2015-07-22 16:00, John Marino wrote: > On 7/22/2015 3:55 PM, Pietro Cerutti wrote: >> 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? > > I've got nothing to do with this other than being curious why this was > such a big deal. now that you have explained you don't want your name > there then I'd suggest just remove it completely. It's not my call. > > John Thanks. -- Pietro Cerutti gahr@FreeBSD.org