Re: Heads-up: Pending removal of 'Created by' from the ports tree

Moin moin

Yes, you are allowed to remove them, but make it explicit in the commit message.

mfg Tobias

On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 at 15:27, Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> > On 5 Jul 2022, at 15:16, Tobias C. Berner <tcberner@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> > Moin moin
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> > portmgr is intending to remove all occurrences of 'Created by' from the tree
> > by the end of this quarter [1].
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> > This is done to honor those that are actively maintaining the ports tree and
> > not those that were there before it was cool.
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> > The ports tree is the product of all the contributors and committers
> > maintaining it currently. If you want your name reflected as contributor, then
> > MAINTAINER is what you need to be. No information is lost, as the original
> > creators are still present in the version control system.
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> > mfg Tobias/portmgr
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> > [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35023
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> In the meantime while we are upgrading or changing our ports are we allowed to remove it?
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> Kind Regards,
> Moin