On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
The CVS log message says:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
The CVS
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual commit on the code change bears only your name.
A casual reader of that commit (and of this
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by
committing them without proper attribution.
your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than
offering commit access to someone who solved a problem that
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual commit on the code change bears only your name.
A casual reader of that
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
indeed. you have made it onto that select list of people whose patches
I have to scrutinize.
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:25:52PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
The CVS
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual commit on the
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by
committing them without proper attribution.
your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than
offering commit access to someone who
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
no problem.
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to
attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community
at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit.
yes, you're right. now I'll have to scrutinize
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and
Alan Hourihane wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote:
Thomas,
If you did get this code directly from Cygwin/X's tree then I'd of
expected at least the credit to be apportioned to Harold at the very
least, rather than putting your name against it. Ralf's name could have
been corrected later, with a
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
I have not been
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
I
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to
attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community
at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit.
yes, you're right.
Thanks.
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
I see only minor inconsitency on his part, that the original commit of
that code didn't attribute it to its author in the CVS logs, while at
least some other commits do note authors of patches. However, he didn't
explicitly take credit for it, like you
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Put Ralf's name in the change log!!!
you first.
(hmm - that's an appropriate pun).
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
been corrected later, with a follow email from Harold.
It's a simple change to put that right in the CHANGELOG. So I'll do that.
I had that on my next set of commits.
Then why not say so earlier?
There was no point in doing so.
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
a lot of words.
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Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
been corrected later, with a follow email from Harold.
It's a simple change to put that right in the CHANGELOG. So I'll do that.
I had that on my next set of commits.
Then why not say so earlier?
There was no point in doing
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Subject: Re: Proper attribution of patches
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote:
I've seen your postings before, and have no use for your opinions.
(that seems to be a common trait of Harold's friends - I don't have to
address each one of them).
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Subject: RE: Proper attribution of patches
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote:
I've seen your postings before, and have no use for your opinions.
(that seems to be a common trait of Harold's friends - I don't have to
address each one of them).
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