Cyril Plisko writes: > On 2/19/07, Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> wrote: > > Roland Mainz wrote: > > > > > > You can get the authorship information from the SCM commit logs. > > That is not entirely correct. Non Sun-employed OpenSolaris developers > are limited in their ability to go back through the SCM history. Of course, > this deficiency will diminish with time, but right now even the pre-launch > history that used to be available once, is not available anymore.
That's a fair argument for getting fair and open SCM access as soon as possible, but, given that it's a temporary problem, not much of an argument for littering the source code with that sort of material. (If you don't believe that the SCM access problem is only a temporary one, then what are you doing here?) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
