Hi Derek, On Di, 2008-03-04 at 11:07 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Andreas Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Before I change anything, I would first like to hear more opinions from > > those almighty main developers at the top of the file, so no update in > > GnuCash 2.2.4 ;-) > > > > The following two issues still do not look resolved to me: > > > > * given the svn login names one can use the ChangeLogs and trac > > search to find out what that person did and is working on, but > > the textual description of the project's history would be lost. > > > > * how do we make sure that translators whose names might first > > appear on the stable branch get into trunk later on? > > My personal opinion is that the AUTHORS files should be dealt with > in the same way that the Linux AUTHORS file is dealt with.. When > someone donates a patch they're welcome to include a diff to the > AUTHORS file, too. If they want to be in the file, they can. If > they don't, they don't have to. > > Is there any particular reason to change this philosophy? It works > great for Linux and it's a much bigger project than we are.
My main concern is that contributors need to be encouraged for that philosophy to work. I fear that otherwise the file will become more and more out-dated. As so far not a lot of people seem to favor such a drastic change as proposed initially, I wonder whether we should at least make the philosophy above transparent to everybody. Attached is a patch the adds a short line to the instructions about how to submit a patch. Other than that we could ask for a AUTHORS hunk when there is no comment about it in a mail with patch, and also make sure active svn account holders appear as main developers. Again just my 2 ¢. -- andi5
diff --git a/README b/README
index 18f891e..6b928fd 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -455,4 +455,7 @@ Submitting a Patch:
$ diff -urN {gnucash-pristine} {gnucash-mydevel} > /tmp/mypatch
+ Please also consider adding or updating an entry in AUTHORS describing
+ your contribution and include the change in your patch.
+
Thank you.
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