On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 10:06:17 -0700, Kevin Oberman stated: >On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 3:34 AM, Carmel NY <carmel...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> >> Excuse my ignorance, but why was John Marino exiled? >> >> >Not to state any opinion of my own, but John had his commit bit pulled >after a long mail dialog about the utility of synth as a complete >replacement for all older port updating tools save poudriere. It was >claimed that John's messages were abusive and in violation of the FreeBSD >"Code of Conduct". It is unclear to me whether this was in regard to pots >to the mailing lists or included private responses to the mail list >discussions. > >Core reviewed the messages and agreed that they were unacceptable. John >disagreed and declined to retract his statements, so Core voted to withdraw >his commit bit. > >The public details are available in the mail archives. > >John did state that he would continue to support synth. I can't say if he >has continued to make contributions. In any case, only poudriere is >available for maintaining ports in HEAD and I, for one, feel that it is >simply unacceptable as it make FreeBSD unusable for those of us with only >"small" systems where the weight poudriere simply can't be justified. (I >have no system with other than SATA disk drives and, for my current needs, >1 TB of SATA on my development system and .5TB on my production system is >adequate. Both systems are physically constrained in expansion capability, >though otherwise easily meet my requirements. > >As a result, I am no longer able to track HEAD and, if the issue is not >resolved in some manner before 11 support ends, will be forced to move from >FreeBSD after an using it for over 2 decades. I certainly hope that this is >not what happens.
I could not agree more. If this matter is not resolved before FBSD 12 is released, I will have to start looking for a replacement for FBSD. -- Carmel _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
