On 22 April 2008 at 14:29, "Alexei Fedotov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > Let's ask a waiter to serve a soup and flies separately. There were > two different questions here. > > 1. Credits. I created a list on Wiki [1] so any unfairness could be > easily fixed.
I have no real view on this. If I wanted to see what someone had done for the project, I'd write some scripts to parse JIRA attachments/comments, mailing list posts and SVN logs. > 2. Author removal. The patch [2] is ready. There was no consensus on > the list about it. If one who raised the question in a separate thread > few days ago is a true gentlemen, he would marry her, I mean, would > facilitate some consensus before applying the patch. [ My unmarried partner is pregnant for the second time so you can't mean me. But I'll reply anyway. ;-) ] Personally I am very much against: a) patches that remove authors names but make no other changes to files unless that is the sole purpose of the patch, and b) new author names being added now that the code is owned by the community I still think getting rid of them would be better but others disagree and have good arguments. But I am prepared to leave it to committers discretion. I don't commit many changes to drlvm and this is the main portion of the codebase with author tags so it doesn't necessarily affect me that much. -Mark > > Thanks. > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/People > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5769 > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Alexey Varlamov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/4/22, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > On 21 April 2008 Alexei Fedotov wrote: > > > > Hello folks > > > > > > > > I started asking people how they would feel about removing their names > > > > from the source files. One of replies I got was that it would be nice > > > > to keep the names in the list of contributors. Any ideas on > > > > feasibility of the file, a suitable name (NOTICE?) and any > > > > corresponding Apache guidelines? > > > > > > You can remove my name, I have no objections. I can't speak for others a > nd I > > > don't really care whether author tags are present in the files or not. > > > > This should be easier to take for committers, as their names are > > publicly credited on Harmony site anyway. ;) > > Seriously, I think many peoples are proud of their work and would > > prefer to stay listed in credits someway. Don't those projects which > > remove @author from sources, maintain a sort of CREDITS.txt instead? > > > > I personally prefer to keep original author names in sources till a > > moment then other contributors to the same file/area feel that it is > > appropriate to drop them. Seeing names in a quick glance helps to > > build that subtle association between peoples and source code, and > > adds another link in community in the end. > > So I second Xiao-Feng, such removal should not be mechanical. > > > > Regards, > > Alexey > > > > > > > > -- > > > Gregory > > > > > > > > > -- > With best regards, > Alexei >
