Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

2004-01-20 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I agree. Over at Jakarta (especially Commons) this discussion was renewed lately. Bottomline is that it's better (and safer for the ASF) to remove author tags from the sources and credit contributors in changes files, CVS messages and on websites. All source files should probably have one author ta

Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

2004-01-20 Thread J.Pietschmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: removed "former contributor" section in favor of going back to giving credit within source files. Uh, oh. That's not supposed to be a change anybody can make on a whim. J.Pietschmann

Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

2004-01-19 Thread Peter B. West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gmazza 2004/01/19 15:56:50 Modified:src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml Log: Updated team page--moved Finn, Andreas, Chris and Peter to active status; set Victor and Keiron to inactive status, removed "former contributor" section in favor of going b

RE: (Victor) RE: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

2003-11-17 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Victor Mote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It also was not to "remove all author credits and > make enhancements to the > RTF Renderer", but we've done some of that, haven't > we? Sorry if I was implying we restore already removed author attributes--we voted to do away with them, and for any rem

RE: (Victor) RE: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

2003-11-17 Thread Victor Mote
Glen Mazza wrote: > Victor, > > Rather than burden the team page with the name of each > person who has contributed source code to FOP, I think > it would be better for us to continue to keep their > names in the source file, albeit outside of the > @author attribute tag. I really hate to be argu

(Victor) RE: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

2003-11-17 Thread Glen Mazza
>>> Victor wrote: > >Jeremias wrote: >> AFAIK Mark Lillywhite was never a committer, only a >> contributor. He >> helped improve speed and memory consumption back >> during his active times. >> Unfortunately, he didn't stay long enough to get >> nominated. >BTW, what triggered this was my tran

Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

2003-10-16 Thread Jeremias Maerki
> Thanks, I wondered about this. I'll change it right away. Do you know if > there is an official record somewhere within the Apache infrastructure where > stuff like this could be checked? http://incubator.apache.org/whoweare.html for example > BTW, what triggered this was my transfer of the las

RE: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

2003-10-16 Thread Victor Mote
Jeremias Maerki wrote: > AFAIK Mark Lillywhite was never a committer, only a contributor. He > helped improve speed and memory consumption back during his active times. > Unfortunately, he didn't stay long enough to get nominated. Thanks, I wondered about this. I'll change it right away. Do you k

Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

2003-10-16 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Victor, AFAIK Mark Lillywhite was never a committer, only a contributor. He helped improve speed and memory consumption back during his active times. Unfortunately, he didn't stay long enough to get nominated. > add Mark Lillywhite to list of former committers Jeremias Maerki