From: Marc Matteo (marcmlectroid.net)
Date: Sun Oct 05 2003 - 22:05:42 CDT

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On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 11:18, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> I have been informed that several of the OpenBSD ports maintainers disagree
> with the "inclusion of their names" in the MirPorts Makefile. This has been
> started by a person who seems to personally hate me, but nevertheless, I seem
> to have to deal with that.

I can see their point (not the point about hating you, the other point
:)). The discomfort probably stems from not being familiar with or able
to support MirBSD.

For instance someone has added a "USE_CXX=yes" flag to Gnome 2 ports in
MirBSD. I don't know what that is and I wasn't asked about it (or told
about it). Yet my name is on the Gnome 2 ports in MirBSD. The first
time I get an "I'm running Gnome 2 on MirBSD..." email I'll just stare
at the screen and go "Uuuuhhhhh, I dunno." That's not fair to your
users, is it?

> But this mailing list is not the place to "fight" that out.

Then the reason for this post is?!? :)

> I would have liked
> to co-exist in peace with the OpenBSD people, but this seems to be not possible.

Well, I think this is possible... at least I'd like to think it is.

> That's why I have made the following decision:
>
> - All names of MAINTAINERs, unless explicitly stated until end of this month,
> timezone UTC, will be removed from the Makefiles.

I think that's best, not just for OpenBSD porters but for MirBSD users.
Personally, those email addresses with an openbsd.org address should be
painfully obvious to MirBSD users as non-MirBSD porters, but others will
not.

> - The mentioning of OpenBSD in the documentation will be removed.

I think you can't deny your OpenBSD roots. If your docs mention OpenBSD
and yet are still accurate I don't see where the harm is (I'm sure
someone will correct me).

My $.02

Marc

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