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Date:      Sat, 12 Jun 2021 08:53:35 -0700
From:      Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Kevin Bowling <kbowling@freebsd.org>, Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org,  dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org,  ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: git: 69c9420a212a - main - news/inn-CURRENT: New port to follow CURRENT snaps
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 4:08 AM Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 01:54:19AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> > There are several prominent -current ports, so are you proposing yet
> > another level of mental gymnastics to erase information?
>
> There are none with capital CURRENT.
>
> > sounds like a textbook cargo cult used to bludgeon contributors.
>
> Or, "we have years worth of doing it one particular way, that is
> part of what we assume ports committers become familiar with during
> their mentorship process".
>
> If you phrase it that way, it takes away the assumption that others
> are automatically acting in bad faith, rather than doing what they
> are actually doing, e.g. trying bring some order into the chaos.
>

Mark, it actually is bad faith to enforce unwritten and unreasoned rules
and this kind of friction only subtracts.  I spent at least 30 minutes
looking for documented guidelines on this and in the end used my brain to
make an opinionated decision.  I have been subconsciously noodling on this
issue due to needless rebuilds of SuiteSparse over the past few bulk
builds.  There is no technical reason to change the proper names of
software, it=E2=80=99s downright silliness.


> mcl
>



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