On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 12:33 Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 2/8/2017 2:38 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > > > I know that different people have different expectation on GitHub. I > > would like to take the opportunity of migrating to Git to use the > > "author" and "committer" fields. If the author is set to the real > > author, the one who proposed the change on the bug tracker or someone > > else, we will be able to compute statistics on most active > > contributors to more easily detect them and promote them to core > > developers. > > > > What do you think? > > Many patches have multiple authors. Does the 'author' field allow that? >
No. > Often, the committer adds missing chunks or rewrites the work with > various degrees of editing. Sometimes a read a patch for the idea and > then start fresh with the actual code. An acknowledgement in the news > entry can be written different ways to reflect the situation. > Yep, I assume the Misc/NEWS entry, commit log, and Misc/ACKS all provide opportunities to overcome the shortcoming of a single author attribution. -Brett > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/brett%40python.org >
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