Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:10:54 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> Cc: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, Ryan Steinmetz <zi@freebsd.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-all@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-head@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r476670 - in head/devel: . rubygem-solve Message-ID: <20180810101054.GA55871@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <8632EEE8-AFFE-4BE6-8E58-CE83F7C9036E@feld.me> References: <201808081953.w78Jr68X078029@repo.freebsd.org> <CAP7rwciJj9U0TOEvnwSCc2hCWh_NF44pPjHfmQRu8MGCYq24AA@mail.gmail.com> <20180808202929.GA63276@exodus.zi0r.com> <20180808213446.gktmjqcyrfhjkrlk@atuin.in.mat.cc> <20180808215702.GB52659@exodus.zi0r.com> <CAP7rwcimLHj2eAYYfXAd609N=14RT8_SJFU2H1qZFk9Yk05sbg@mail.gmail.com> <8632EEE8-AFFE-4BE6-8E58-CE83F7C9036E@feld.me>
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 07:30:28AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > Adam, please stop. You cannot honestly expect committers to invent > descriptions for ports that have zero documentation. Of course we can; in fact, that's their direct responsibility. If one had ported a piece of software, they are expected to know when does it do or why is it useful to have in the collection, and be able to express this knowledge in a few sentences. I utterly fail to understand what's so hard about this? > I have plenty of ports myself that only exist in the tree because I > had to chase dependencies for the software I intended to port. Most of > these are libraries that have non-descript or "too-clever" names and > of which I have no idea what their function is. So you're bringing potentially dangerous or malicious software in the collection, how nice. > It is not my responsibility nor the responsibility of any committer > to fix this problem. It is your and others' direct responsibility if you offer a piece of software to our users. You don't have to audit the entire source code but at least basic understanding of what are you adding is certainly in order. ./danfe
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