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

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 10:20:54AM -0400, Charlie Li wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > The Ports Tree is a collective work, an iterative, ongoing development.
> > Various people bring their bits here and there, some of those people lay
> > the first stone, and had the right to mark it as such.  Even if someone
> > decides to replace their work later on, the stone stays still.  But then
> > again: we don't just throw away prior work and replace it with our own;
> > this is rude, disrespectful to previous contributors, and could easily
> > turn people from making new ports.
> 
> As a non-committer back then, actions like yours that completely ignored
> prior (by years) art that was worked on in an official project workspace

I did not *ignore* anything, Charlie, and find your rhetoric unjust. :(

While I usually grep Bugzilla for new ports I want to commit (and when
I find one, I'd use it and give proper attribution), I could not keep
track of every external repo and the work that's happening there.  Again,
it was a small library and three *leaf* ports.  Nothing infrastructural,
or affecting two thirds of the tree, or unfixable with a small patch.
I don't see how these four ports could not be integrated in your big WIP
Cinnamon tree (at any time).

> certainly deterred me from continuing to contribute to the "collective
> work" for a bit. These feelings of deterrence will not necessarily get
> verbalised, especially not in the moment.

Okay, maybe not in the moment, but the question still stands: if someone
commits something faster than you, and this gives you that feeling of
deterrence from continuing to contribute -- how shall we all work together
then?  You'd keep a list of things you plan to port and ask people to stay
out of this domain for indefinite period of time?

./danfe