I'm quite sure this angry rant won't be pleasant to read for anybody, but still I believe this post serves the good of Gentoo and this issue is technical enough to be discussed on gentoo-dev. Also gentoo-pr list seems retired anyway.
This is a second time I've got into a situation when a new ebuild submitted by me gets to mainline with minimal changes but not retaining my authorship at all. First time it was here: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/361 and my rant was endorsed by monsieurp and the committer made excuses. This time the discussion between me and the committer has never happened. My PR: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/2765 My bugzilla ticket linked to it: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599088 After my pull request from Nov 6, the following commit gets into mainline: commit e19f46dfca967f4195eedf3f37a7882fbb37b796 Author: Matthew Thode <prometheanf...@gentoo.org> Date: Tue Nov 15 13:55:17 2016 -0600 dev-python/secretstorage: adding for keyring Package-Manager: portage-2.3.0 The difference between my submission and final variant by Matthew is big in number of lines, but is trivial in content as you can see below, so I don't believe that Matthew has written his variant from scratch on his own (he hasn't given any note on tickets on bugs.g.o or github), it seems more like intentional swapping and amending original lines retaining identical outcome. Not that authorship of one or two commits is so crucial for me, or that I'm the most ambitious wannabe-contributor. Hell, there's not much of code at all in the ebuild - it's trivial; but also not much is needed here to give credit. I have contributed to quite some FOSS projects, and have run into theft of my patches a couple of times, and it never was by pure accident. I beg affiliated Gentoo developers to stay sane and be thinking not just about numbers of your commits, but also about community spirit and relationships. Of course inexperienced contributor gets things not right first. In such cases, great maintainers fix that and retain original authorship; good maintainers request for changes and resubmission. In no way I'm going to drift away from Gentoo because of this issue, no alternatives around. (I even have a gradually maturing idea to become Gentoo contributor on regular basis.) Just for record, a list of projects I've contributed to: FFmpeg, Linux kernel, VLC, GStreamer, Kamailio, Mcabber, Gajim, v4l-utils. diff --git a/336a45f661 b/98c5361d66 index 336a45f661..98c5361d66 100644 --- a/336a45f661 +++ b/98c5361d66 @@ -1,19 +1,27 @@ -# Copyright 2016 Gentoo Foundation +# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Id$ -EAPI="6" -PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{3,4,5} ) +EAPI=6 +PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5} ) inherit distutils-r1 -DESCRIPTION="Python bindings to FreeDesktop.org Secret Service API" -HOMEPAGE="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SecretStorage"; -SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz" +MY_PN="SecretStorage" + +DESCRIPTION="Python bindings to FreeDesktop.org Secret Service API." +HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mitya57/secretstorage https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SecretStorage"; +SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/S/${MY_PN}/${MY_PN}-${PV}.tar.gz" LICENSE="BSD" SLOT="0" -KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86" +KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux" +IUSE="" + +DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" + +RDEPEND=" + dev-python/cryptography[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] + dev-python/dbus-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" -RDEPEND="dev-python/dbus-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] - dev-python/cryptography[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" +S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-${PV}"
