On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 13:33 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-02-08 21:32 GMT+01:00 Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > > Many patches have multiple authors. Does the 'author' field allow that? > > 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. > > In my experience, the common case is two "authors": the initial patch > autor, and the core dev who makes minor changes like filling Misc/NEWS > and adjust some parts of the code. If changes are minor, there is no > need to elaborate. But if changes are non straightforward, they can be > listed in the commit messages. > > If a patch has more author, you have to pick the name, decide which > author helped the most, and add the other authors in the commit > message. > > Using GitHub, it will become easier to use patch series, and so > smaller changes. Each change may have a different author :-D > Don't forget we are doing squash merges, so if a PR has multiple authors then the author information won't carry forward in git (I don't know if GitHub has custom logic to work around this).
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