Hello Mark, Wishing all the well for the mother and the child. :-) I see your point. Thanks!
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- With best regards, Alexei
