On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Jim Fehlig <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/08/2018 03:22 AM, David Kiarie wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:11 AM, Jim Fehlig <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 05/07/2018 08:57 AM, David Kiarie wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:55 PM, David Kiarie <
>> [email protected]
>>         <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>              On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Peter Krempa <
>> [email protected]
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>>              <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>                  On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 12:17:05 +0300, David Kiarie
>> wrote:
>>                  > On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 12:15 PM, David Kiarie
>>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>         <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>>                  > wrote:
>>                  >         > > Replace references to my name and email
>> with a
>>         pseudonym
>>                  > >
>>                  >         > Sorry, I just want my real name and email
>> off these
>>         files and I keep making
>>                  > silly mistakes.
>>
>>                  How about just deleting them? We don't really support
>> using
>>         pseudonyms.
>>
>>
>>              Why is that ? With a person reason I don't want my name of
>> these
>>         files. I
>>              wrote the files and it took me a lot of work.
>>
>>              I can still prove I wrote this code with the above email if
>> anyone
>>         wants me
>>              to as I still work as a developer.
>>
>>
>>         I initally requested to have my name removed from the files but
>>         apparently I hadn't signed off the patch so it was rejected.
>>
>>
>>     You could have simply replied to the mail requesting a SOB and one of
>> us
>>     would have added it your patch and pushed it.
>>
>>         One month later, I figured it might be a bad idea to just give up
>> all
>>         the work I had done and opted to keep track of it.
>>
>>
>>     I think that is a wise choice, in which case you should leave the
>> authorship
>>     as is :-).
>>
>>
>> I do have a good reason as to why I would like to remove my name from
>> these files which I will not bother explaining. And I actually do want my
>> name removed from these files.
>>
>
> Understood. We could have pushed the first version of your patch if it had
> a SOB. Presence of a SOB is enforced by a commit hook, so the patch
> couldn't be pushed without it. That wasn't enforced when you were working
> on the project. Apologies for not making that clearer at the beginning of
> this thread, saving everyone some time.
>
> Removing my name on the other hand means I give up on something which I
>> painstakingly worked on for almost one year.
>>
>
> As Daniel already mentioned, git contains a better history of your
> contributions. Interaction with the project is also recorded in the mail
> list archives.
>

This is okay but this definitely wrong. And it does indeed sound wrong. And
it will always sound wrong.

Being involved in a GSoC project is not about contributions. And also
considering the scale of our project(some of the code even never got
merged). There was a lot of research, design, planning, implementation,
review and finally the code got merged.

I should at least be able to copyright the file. I mean, Jim was my mentor,
I did most of the work but his company copyright is right at the top of the
file - Does this sound okay to you ?


> Regards,
> Jim
>
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