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of people who wrote the code in the source files. Sure, there's probably some Teamware logs, but that doesn't feel as public as something like a ChangeLog [1] or author credits in the source code headers.
I'm not with you on that. The Solaris sourcecode is the product of the hard work done by so many people that putting their names into the sourcefiles directly, or even keeping a central repository "credits.txt" (whatever) is only going to clutter things. It puts my name into a crowd of thousands - and definitely not at the top of things. Why should I want that ?
For my part, I'm proud that the teamware logs reflect my work, successes and failures (!) alike. It's a great trail of what I've worked on and how well/bad I did on it. Almost like a mini-CV. Far more targeted and precise than a global, huge "contributors.txt" that shows my name deep down within a list of thousands. It makes me proud having my name appear on the v1.1 line of a history file, although so far that only happened once. It makes me proud being able to tell someone "look at what I did" instead of just saying "hey I'm with the crowd". There's even some pride in backout logs followed by re-putbacks of a fixed set of changes - I failed but yet I persisted.
A very personal opinion of mine. But since you brought it up, I just had to speak out :)
Happy new year everyone - and may your names appear in many SCCS history files next year !
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