Ken, This was sad news indeed! I’m sorry, but respect your decision. I had not much, if any at all, to contribute to the issue(s) of dispute. However, I found the personal attack on you from this individual utterly appalling. I’m not aware of MacPorts have a Code of Conduct, a commonly used CoC in open source projects is [1]. Even if I have no formal say in the matter, I would support Ryan’s suggestion for permanent ban. Wouldn’t care less if this is would be a A. Einstein level genius.
Best, Nicklas [1] https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/ > On 4 Feb 2025, at 18:44, Ken Cunningham <[email protected]> > wrote: > > First of all, I’ve been pretty strongly attacked, as you can see. > > Gagan has been around MacPorts for about two or three months. He has two > commits so far to his name: > > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commits?author=i3roly > > You can feel free to read the entirety of our interaction in the PR where he > felt slighted: > > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26031 > > Any failings of mine in there are about the best I will ever be able to do. > > There was also one brief email exchange with him where expressed his > displeasure with me, and I pointed out he was very new and there was much to > learn. > > All that being said — and not strictly because of that interaction, but in > respect to other general life events, I have re-evaluated how I choose to > spend my time. Life is short, as we all know, and there are only so many > hours in the day. I have resigned from the MacPorts’ committer team, and > deleted all my MacPorts installations on older systems and all my VMs. > > What little I may have contributed over the past 10 years that people may > have found useful, I hope you enjoy. What failings I may have had are life’s > foibles. Like everyone, we all try to do our best. > > It was fun, in ways, keeping all those older systems humming — but I have > moved them all to linux now, and I don’t use them any more anyway. > > I wish you all well in your future adventures! > > Best, > > Ken
