On Oct 02, 2001 at 01:37 -0600, Chris Fedde took the soap box and proclaimed:
: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:34:18 -0700 Terrence Monroe Brannon wrote:
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: | At 11:15 AM -0600 10/2/01, Chris Fedde wrote:
: | >
: | >wanted to we could begin a perlcredits.pod file that contains names and
: | >other well wishes regarding contributers to the FAQ, but perlfaq.pod
: |
: | make the perlfaqcredits.pod. reserve perlcredits.pod for perldoc
: | perl pod pages as a whole
: |
: | the perl docs have quite a few others. All of who have done an
: | excellent job but not necessarily been given the credit they deserve
: | either.
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: Are the FAQ a part of the perlcore documentation or are they different some
: how? If so then maybe there could be =head1 sections in the
: perlcredits.pod file that demark those who contributed to the core doc and
: those who contributed to the FAQ.
Copyright should go to YAS or Larry, whom ever will accept it.
Credit is highly overrated, I like our current unspoken system:
- Do something small, get your name in AUTHORS and a Changes entry.
- Do something large, put your name in the '=head1 Authors' file
with a short line about what you did. I consider this more about
accountability and responsibility than about fame.
Casey West
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