On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, William Stein wrote:
Having an AUTHORS: block in code is not a standard *software
engineering* practice. It is something that fits much more the
culture of mathematics, where we celebrate individual achievement.
Good point.
I am actually a sysadmin, so I think that I should not get credits.
Something like a cleaner: my job should be invisible and servers should
"just work".
But when something goes wrong, then I may be the one to blame. That's why
404-pages have webmaster address, 200-pages have not. That's why we have
"git blame" and not "git praise".
From this viewpoint there really should have AUTHORS-block. Not for
credits, but for blaming about bugs and unclear documentation. And maybe
for asking how to do something. And for that there should be some easy way
to send message from Sage to a developer.
--
Jori Mäntysalo
