+1 To continue giving attribution (unless you wrote the code, in which case, whats the point, eh?)
------------------- Jesse Yates @jesse_yates jyates.github.com On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > I see some committers are continuing the informal practice we've had of > attribution in parenthesis after the issue description if the work is not > your own, e.g. > > HBASE-XXXX. JIRA title goes here (Contributor Name) > > I've noticed that some committers are definitely not doing this. > > I think it is bad practice not to provide attribution to the contributor in > the commit message. When one is reviewing commit history, neither links to > JIRA nor inlining of JIRA content is possible -- unless there is some tool > that does this of which I'm not aware (please let me know!). > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) >
