This would be OK with me. However, I think it should be coupled with us writing good release notes with each release which gives the code contributors credit for their contributions.
IIRC, the purpose of the "author" field was to know who to call when things broke. I agree that this purpose has now been subsumed by git blame. On the other hand, I think it also served as the de facto way of giving people credit for their contributions. We should be sure to find another way to do this, too (e.g., release notes). Cheers, Jason On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:00 PM Gabe Black <gabebl...@google.com> wrote: > Hi folks. I would like to suggest dropping authors from the header comments > in the various files in gem5. That field is not really maintained, and it's > not clear even when it should be updated. The history is a much more > accurate and complete record of who did what. > > What do people think about that? > > Gabe > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > gem5-dev@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list gem5-dev@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
