On Jan 26, 2025, at 18:25, Gagan Sidhu wrote: > > you make this project suck. i’ve heard it from others too. > > to be honest, i wonder how many contributors this project has lost over the > past decade because of his uncivilised behaviour.
Gagan, I'm pretty close to permanently banning you from this project. Ken is a valued contributor and doesn't deserve your insults. MacPorts is a community where people volunteer their time to make things better for other Mac users, ostensibly because they enjoy doing so. If the community devolves into personal attacks, that enjoyment evaporates, contributors disappear, and the project dies. Maybe we should all take a couple days off from this thread to cool down and if there's anything to be said when we return let's keep it civil and fact-based. One fact I can share is that a disproportionately high number of tickets in recent months or maybe years have been filed by users of the oldest Mac OS X versions MacPorts works on and while some of those issues are general and need general fixes, many are specific to those old systems and responding to such tickets takes time that could have been spent fixing problems that affect a much larger portion of the MacPorts-using population. This may be one reason why Josh suggested dropping Tiger support.
