On 07/08/11 00:06 +0200, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: > A Dissabte, 6 d'agost de 2011 23:46:51, Cédric Krier va escriure: > > On 06/08/11 23:17 +0200, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: > > > A Dissabte, 6 d'agost de 2011 22:18:29, Cédric Krier va escriure: > > > > > Of course, that information could always be calculated out of the > > > > > COPYRIGHT but that would probably take too much effort for this > > > > > need, but it is an idea to keep that up to date. > > > > > > > > I don't see why duplicate information. > > > > > > Not that I want that in two files but that it is visible from within the > > > module list in Tryton application. The thing is that end users who do > > > not know how to use mercurial can know who did the module. This approach > > > would allow reviewers and translators to be acknowledged too. > > > > I want to simplify stuff not complexify it. We have already difficulty to > > maintain the copyright file (but this must be done for legal purpose). > > That's why I'd keep current fields. They're far from perfect but simple and > useful in some cases. After all they're not required so those can be left > empty if you want.
Right now, it doesn't work because it is almost never updated so it must be fixed. I prefer to remove than having a broken stuff. > > > Even some customers like their name appear in the module. We did several > > > modules with author "NaN for XXXX" where XXXX was the customer. > > > > This could be done in the README. > > Customers know abouth the GUI, one cannot ask them to take a look at a file > in > the server. Indeed we don't care about customers. Tryton is a free-software project, we must care about users. Those informations are available at the time they need to be which is when the software is installed. > > > There could > > > also be some "Sponsors" field, though. People like to appear in the > > > credits and I think we should find a way to give visibility to everyone > > > that wants to be acknowledged for the work she did or paid for. > > > > But I don't see any valid reason to put those information in the database. > > I already gave it. End users, do not know about server-side things or README > files. Having those informations don't help the end user to use the software. Less is more. > > Should I remember that almost everybody aggree on removing the tryton > > website from menu client [1]. > > Yet you kept it as well as the name of several contributors in the About > dialog which is what I'm asking for: A user-visible place in which developers > and contributors are acknowledged for their work even if they didn't > participate in the development of tryton's client application. It is only those who work on the client and it is there because it is required by gtk.AboutDialog(). Indeed I don't like it too much because it duplicate the information of the copyright and readme file. -- Cédric Krier B2CK SPRL Rue de Rotterdam, 4 4000 Liège Belgium Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 Email/Jabber: [email protected] Website: http://www.b2ck.com/
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