On Dec 7, 2007 1:32 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am certainly happy to share credit with anyone on any file I work on. > IMHO, anyone who does anything non-trivial has the write to put their > name on a xyz.py file, at least if they are happy to cede their copyright to > William Stein. In fact, for licensing issues, I would think it is useful to > know > who worked on which files. > If the concern is that it is hogging docstring real estate, then maybe > a new xyz.history file could be created which would have all this info in it?
I think the idea of the OSS book (and also mine) is to use the Mercurial revision history for tracking who wrote each line. It's the psychology, for example when I modified the calculus.py, by adding a new function and a few lines, I don't feel I should add myself at the top of the file. When another 15 people like me are going to modify calculus.py, the authors will be quite misleading. The Mercurial nevertheless provides exact history who wrote what. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
