updating graphics/librsvg2

[Jeremy Messenger]

mi, please control yourself again and collect the clues before you reply  
to anything.

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:34:10 -0500, Mikhail Teterin  
<mi+kde at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:

> On Friday 16 September 2005 01:09 am, you wrote:
> 	[ Excessive overquoting trimmed ]
> = http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports
>
> Joe! For all I care, it may as well be in your garage some place.
>
> There is ONE cvs-repository, and it is located at
>
> 	pcvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/pcvs
>
> This port was last updated in March -- two or three port-freezes ago.
> Life may be wonderful at marcuscom, but if something is not in the
> _FreeBSD_ Project's repo, it *does not exist*.
>
> (And, that, BTW, applies to the new firefox-beta port...)
>
> This obscurity is not simply detrimental to progress, it is
> disrespectful. For ever, a person wanting a change was encouraged to
> sit down and implement it her/himself. So why did I just waste 2 hours
> following this rule? I saw the ports/85966, worked up the fix, checked
> the vendor's site and figured, I'll update and fix it in one go. I then
> duly submit my work to the maintainer, and what do I get? "Yeah, we
> know, fook off?.."
>
> You may recall, that the src-part of the Project have already gone
> through this a few years ago -- certain developers were too comfortable
> with their Perforce branches and weren't sharing their work with others
> for months. It was justly deemed wrong...
>
> 	-mi


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