On 5/29/12 8:43 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
Would it be too much additional overhead if we all agreed to track
patch authors, reviewers, bug authors, etc., in Subversion memo's in a
semi-structured way?
I'm thinking of what the Subversion project does, mainly using 4
possible fields in the check in memo:
Patch by:
Suggested by:
Found by:
Review by:
(You use whichever are appropriate. Not every check-in will have all four).
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html#crediting
The nice thing about this minimal amount of structure is it allows
easy extraction of contributors via a simple script, e.g.,:
http://www.red-bean.com/svnproject/contribulyzer/
As you may know, our current informal approach tracks committers, but
does not explicitly track other contributors.
+1, and we should document it somewhere how exactly we want do it...
Juergen
