On 7/5/22 16:26, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 03:16:17PM +0200, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
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portmgr is intending to remove all occurrences of 'Created by' from the
tree by the end of this quarter [1].
This is done to honor those that are actively maintaining the ports tree
and not those that were there before it was cool.
Before what "was cool"? Those who maintain a particular port are listed
as MAINTAINER, it's a public offical field with pkg(8). "Created by" is
an optional courtesy tag for those who want to be remembered as the port's
author. While we no longer encourage it, some of us still prefer to use
it; dropping it forcibly is tactless and unjust.
Porting new software can be hard, and allowing the author to be visibly
noted is a valuable sign of appreciation the FreeBSD Project can offer
to those people. What you suggest is utterly upsetting and demotivating.
Yes, I can relate to that, albeit in a different way. I wrote the
current iteration of the math/polymake port and initially added a
'Created By:' line at the top of the ports' Makefile. My name was
removed and replaced by the author of the original port, even though I
made it clear that I wrote everything from scratch. At the time that was
somewhat demotivating.
To be clear, I don't hold a grutch against anyone involved. I got over
it quickly, but I still think it's strange to credit people in cases
like this were a port gets removed from the tree, years go by, someone
else revives the port and basically starts from a blank slate.
Whatever we decide to do, I'd like to see the same rules applied to all
(and in a consistent manner if possible ;-)).
Best
Philipp
