Hi, On Sa, 2008-03-08 at 18:50 +0100, Andreas Köhler wrote: > On Di, 2008-03-04 at 11:07 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > 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. ---8<---
I just noticed that there is even a bulleted item at the bottom of README.svn which gives the impression that it is the job of the committer to add new authors. Another ¢. -- andi5
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