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Date:      Sat, 12 Jun 2021 10:03:16 -0700
From:      Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, 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 9:52 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 08:53:35AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> > ...
> > There is no technical reason to change the proper names of software,
> > it's downright silliness.
>
> The reason here is mainly organizational, not technical, -- that is,
> consistency or, as Mark had very nicely put, trying bring some order
> into the chaos which is immanental to the huge collection of software
> we have in our ports.  We cannot and should not follow every stupid
> upstream naming idea (or any other their stupidity, FWIW).

It's not stupid to respect the naming of other people's work.  FreeBSD
is FreeBSD, not freebsd, and -CURRENT was -CURRENT not -current.  If
you referred to me as 'kevin' repeatedly I would assume you are lazy
and not really care.  If you insist on it in code or documentation
it's disrespectful.  Software naming is not our choice.  To prepare a
gong show where some things follow proper naming and others don't so
you get publicly shamed.. I won't stand for that.  Please write the
rules in the Porter's handbook and explain why and when there is a
distinction and we won't need to have discussion, you can point
contributors to a link in the future.

> ./danfe



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