Re: C99 (was: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc)

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On Friday, March 7th, 2025 at 9:05 AM, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:

> * On 2025-03-06 at 04:36 GMT, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> 
> > * On 2025-03-05 at 22:13 GMT, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:24:38AM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The work I'll be doing in dreckly will be based on the cleanup I did a while
> > > > back that was posted to the lists. Due to the git repository rehash it's no
> > > > longer possible to compare, but the commits are still here:
> > > > 
> > > > https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/commits/feature/gcc-selection/trunk/
> > > > 
> > > > if someone wants to do something similar for pkgsrc.
> > > 
> > > If/when someone commits these to pkgsrc, how do you want to be credited?
> > 
> > I don't want credit, I just want this nightmare to be over so I can go
> > back to being able to sleep at night.
> 
> 
> Sorry, that was uncalled for. My mental health has been absolutely shot
> recently because of this situation, but that's no excuse for outbursts,
> and I apologise.
> 
> Obviously my preference would be for me to do this work myself in
> pkgsrc, but I just can't keep up with everyone constantly breaking the
> platforms I am responsible for, and until that is resolved I have to do
> any future work in my fork.
> 
> You're welcome to take whatever you want, and I honestly don't mind if
> you credit me or not, just please do not take things without testing
> them thoroughly. I cannot guarantee that they will work in a pkgsrc
> context, they may require additional changes, and the last thing I want
> is a repeat of the bsd.patch-vars.mk change.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Jonathan Perkin pkgsrc.smartos.org
> Open Source Complete Cloud www.tritondatacenter.com


This is not really something I should be having an opinion on.
But, fact is, I do have one.

First of all, it's a pity we had to reach the fork stage and the consequent dilution of already scarce resources.
Personally, I wish that this could be solved and the fork could be forgotten.

We should soon be in freeze for the Q1 branching which, I think won't happen this time.

So, my suggestion would be to freeze the tree completly for a 2 - 3 weeks (not even leaf packages allowed) and let jperkin do whatever he needs/wants to do.

Feel free to disregard my opinion but, for the sake of avoiding resource loss and for the sake of the future of pkgsrc, I kindly ask you to consider this.

Regards,
Pedro