Re: git: 2fc48fb6f70b - main - CHANGES: document removal of 'Created by' lines.
- In reply to: Tobias C. Berner: "git: 2fc48fb6f70b - main - CHANGES: document removal of 'Created by' lines."
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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 03:32:30 UTC
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 01:10:28PM +0000, Tobias C. Berner wrote: > commit 2fc48fb6f70b4b0a6f0ccdba18ed856676f0268d > > CHANGES: document removal of 'Created by' lines. > > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35023 > With hat: portmgr > > +20220722: > +AUTHOR: portmgr@FreeBSD.org > + > + 'Created by' are being removed from the ports makefiles. > + > + Created by lines have historically been used to attribute contributions > + to the original creators of the ports. However, those might no longer > + be contributing to the port How does "might no longer be" justifies removing *all* of them, without the consent of those people? How am I supposed to record port creators now? Or do you propose polluting every port with some "created-by" file instead? How is it better than simple Makefile comment? (inb4 "this information is in git": no one would be digging the repo for that, it should be clearly displayed in the working copy somewhere.) ./danfe