On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Miklos Vajna <vmik...@frugalware.org> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:24:51PM +0100, Laszlo Papp <djsz...@archlinux.us> > wrote: >> Yeah, it's worth I think so, just see other package manager on other >> distribution, it's a 'standard' to involve the AUTHORS name in the >> manpage of the tools even not everybody developer all the tools. What >> do you think ? > > I think in most cases the AUTHOR section of a manpage mentions: > > (Did you notice that the name is 'AUTHOR', not 'AUTHORS'?)
Yeah. > 1) the original author (maybe a bit more, but really not more) or > > 2) a website or file path where the complete list can be viewed. > > See, if a project has 700 contributors, you can't include all of them at > the bottom of a manpage, right? It's a radical example, but I agree with you here. > Just two examples: > > - The git project usually just mentions the original author and "the git > list". See the manpage of git-merge, I am the author of the current > code, but given that I just rewrote it in C while it was in sh > previously, I did not put my name to the manpage. > - The mplayer project has "originally written by X Y, see the AUTHORS > file for a complete list". > > I thought including 4 was already too long, that's why I changed the > explicit list to a file path. Now that we are about 7 you would change > this back just to show up your name in every manpage. > > No, that's a no-go. Archlinux pacman manpage mentions 5 authors, but I agree with you, sorry If i robbed your time. Best Regards, Laszlo Papp _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list Frugalware-devel@frugalware.org http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
