svn commit: r458000 - head/www/nginx

[Adam Weinberger]

> On 9 Jan, 2018, at 11:33, Sergey A. Osokin <osa at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:03:35AM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>> On 9 Jan, 2018, at 5:35, Sergey A. Osokin <osa at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> is there any update?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Hi Sergey,
>>
>> Sorry, but I can't give you a good answer on why the change was or wasn't
>> discussed, and why people were or weren't notified about it in advance. It
>> was policy long before it was written into the PHB, and that occurred in
>> r43772, 3 years 11 months ago.
>>
>> At the end of the day, it's simply the only mechanism we have to ensure
>> that users' installations match what we have in the repo. Past that I'm  
>> not
>> really sure how to give you a satisfactory answer your question. If the
>> policy were enacted a few months ago, I could provide insight, but we're
>> talking about something that's been policy for 5+ years.
>
> Adam,
>
> thanks for the update.
>
> Since this new policy never been discussed, we had no public plans to
> enact this policy in our roadmap, the developers have never been notified
> about this major change, I'd recommend to postpone it and start new  
> discussion.
> Personally I don't see big value of it, also I think this new policy
> potentially can bring more harmful than positive effects for the project.

Come on, Sergey. We cannot postpone something that's been active policy for  
OVER FIVE YEARS.

Users need to rebuild a port when it changes. It doesn't matter which set  
of options they're using, they must rebuild it. If you'd like to have a  
discussion about changing the policy, then that's great and we should have  
that discussion. But in the meantime, you MUST follow the policy.

# Adam


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