Re: git: d128a409234d - main - editors/xed: update to 3.2.4

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 02:08:32PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 03:26:40PM +0200, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> > To cut in on this discussion: as my message to ports@ hinted, portmgr
> > is intending to get rid of those lines completely in the next months.
> > We have a version control system, and attribution to the original
> > creators is, and will always be there.
> 
> Well, no, I'd like to see those "Created by:" lines in the Makefiles.
> They give you the immediate history feeling, they create nice visual
> separation of the PORTNAME from the top of the file, and last but not
> least, this is part of what motivates people to create new ports, and
> they want their name to be seen upfront, not digged out from the VCS.
> 
> > For the reasoning:
> > A person just glancing at makefiles will do wrong attribution, when
> > the 'Created by' line is there, as they don't necessarily have the
> > history.
> 
> "Created by" is not "maintainer", it's the Porject's courtesy to those
> who port new software.  Depriving people from seeing it sends a rather
> demotivating signal to new contributors.
> 
> ./danfe

The Created by is unfair and it has been explained many many times, the
courtesis for the people who port new software or btw any contributors is
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributors/#contrib-additional

Best regards,
Bapt