Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-07 Thread Jesse Noller
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 17:24 -0500, R. David Murray a écrit : >> Has any progress been made on an electronically signable agreement >> and/or adding "posting a patch to this tracker means you have the right >> to contribute it and you do

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 17:24 -0500, R. David Murray a écrit : > Has any progress been made on an electronically signable agreement > and/or adding "posting a patch to this tracker means you have the right > to contribute it and you do contribute it" language to the tracker? +1. That would be a

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:24 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > Has any progress been made on an electronically signable agreement > and/or adding "posting a patch to this tracker means you have the right > to contribute it and you do contribute it" language to the tracker? Note that the latter point (r

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread R. David Murray
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:42:27 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: > OK. As far as I am concerned, adding code to the repository that is > not covered by a contributor agreement is a recipe for disaster, and I > would like to hear what other committers think. I'm not sure how or > when the committers list wa

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Holden
On Mar 6, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >>> Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 13:19 -0500, Steve Holden a écrit : In short, if someone isn't able to sign a contributor agreement we should ask ourselves whether it's really appropriate to incorporate their contributions into th

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 10:40 -0500, Steve Holden a écrit : > People who have not signed a contributor agreement should not be > listed as code authors: this leads to non-auditable contributions and > a lack of clarity as to intellectual property ownership that can have > negative consequences.

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Holden
People who have not signed a contributor agreement should not be listed as code authors: this leads to non-auditable contributions and a lack of clarity as to intellectual property ownership that can have negative consequences. If you want to make someone an author, confirm they are contributors

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:23, Georg Brandl wrote: >> If I use hg commit --user, is it possible to see somewhere that the >> commiter was me? > > Basically, no.  If you want to honor contributors, put their name into > the commit message. You can still see who pushed it in the python-checkins emai

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread Georg Brandl
On 06.03.2011 10:55, Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I do sometimes commit patches written by someone else. I tried to always > add him/her to Misc/ACKS and in the changelog entry (Misc/NEWS). With > git, it's possible to record an author different than the commiter. In > Mercurial, I see a --user

[python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I do sometimes commit patches written by someone else. I tried to always add him/her to Misc/ACKS and in the changelog entry (Misc/NEWS). With git, it's possible to record an author different than the commiter. In Mercurial, I see a --user option. Can I use this option to commit a patch writt