git: f1e718499cb3 - main - www/civetweb: New port: Embedded C/C++ web server

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at freebsd.org
Wed Jun 2 06:21:05 UTC 2021


On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 12:48:48AM -0400, Guangyuan Yang wrote:
> ...
> Thanks for your friendly and constructive feedback, I agree that
> terminating with a full stop is a lot better. In this case, I will
> change pkg-descr to the following:
> 
> "civetweb is a C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and
> Lua support."

Yes, that's better, and would be a good start, shall it ever see further
elaboration and/or other improvements.

> There is no need to point fingers

I don't understand what does this mean, or rather how it applies in this
particular context, sorry.

> if you take a look at the project website, there really isn't any more
> useful information to add.

If upstream and/or submitter fails to provide proper text, it becomes
committer's responsibility to write up and add one.  We as downstream
is where our users get software from, and we should exercise our best
effort to accurately inform them of essential aspects of things they
might (or might not) want to install.  Yes, sometimes it requires to
read the source code.

> Also, I assure you that the review process has been closely followed

Glad to hear.  I didn't really doubt this, just pointed out what had
looked like it was missed in the review.

./danfe


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