Christopher Lenz wrote:
Am 15.01.2006 um 11:47 schrieb Christian Boos:
Personally I add myself to the Author list whenever I feel I made a
significant
contribution to that file, and also when I understand the code enough
to be able
to maintain it.
The fact that you provide your e-mail address in that file
effectively enables
anyone having questions about that code to contact you directly.
While I've subscribed to that same strategy, I actually think that
listing the authors is not such a great idea. For contacting the
author, you're actually doing the community a disservice; the mailing
lists are generally a much better way to learn about the code than
direct contact to someone who may at some point have added code to
that file (imagine someone writes to daniel about the session code...
do you think they'll get a response?)
Well, that e-mail info can be used as a "last resort" thing, if someone
got the archive
and is living on an island without access to the Mailing List ... :)
More seriously, that's mainly to give a hint about who's working on what.
But then, I agree that the Copyright/Author stuff is somewhat redundant
for that purpose.
-- Christian
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