On Monday, 21 September 2015 21:42:31 UTC-7, William wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Kwankyu Lee <ekwa...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I have written a couple of AUTHORS-blocks, but I think I did it not to > have > > a credit but to be responsible for the code. > > > > AUTHORS blocks are rather for developers, not for end users. > These blocks > > are rather hindrance for end users as they usually appear at the head > of a > > When I "invented" this idea of AUTHORS blocks, they were definitelynot > only for developers but also for end users. They were partly meant > as an antidote to what happened with Magma when "they" deleted all the > names of many of the contributors to Magma from the beginnings of the > relevant sections of the reference manual, which pissed a lot of > contributors off. > > When you read a mathematics paper you don't say "this statement of the > authors of this paper at the top is not for readers and is a > hindrance". > > If anything, I think we should systematically do vastly *more* to > clearly acknowledge and appreciate the code contributors to Sage. > They are by far the most important people to the existence of Sage. g >
I know at least one prolific Sage contributor who does not add himself to AUTHORS block, and actually is removing these blocks. IMHO we need an official policy on this. > -- William > > > documentation but these information, like TODO and TESTS, is not usually > > what the user expects to see in the doc. These developer-oriented > blocks > > are better to be hidden or placed in less prominent place for the end > users. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
