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

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 04:21:24PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 02:08:32PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > ...
> > > 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.
> 
> The Created by is unfair

Why?

> and it has been explained many many times

[citation needed]

> courtesis for the people who port new software or btw any contributors
> is https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributors/#contrib-additional

This is just some webpage with a long unattached list of names, can't even
remember when was the last time I've browsed it as it's pretty useless.
Seeing the name of who created the particular port I'm working on right now
up-front in the Makefile is a whole different thing.

./danfe