On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:34 AM Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mi, 30 Dez 2020, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 4:33 PM Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:01 PM Felipe Contreras > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> There are some credits, for some of the contributions, of some of the > > >> contributors. Not all, not even most. > > > > > > I have contributed many patches in the past 20 years to Vim. When Bram > > > sends out a patch, he includes the name of the author in the patch > > > header. Also, when someone reports a problem, Bram includes their > > > name in the patch. > > > > That doesn't include the authors that contribute to the runtime. > > As has been pointed out, runtime files are different. This is the naturalistic fallacy again. The fact that they are different doesn't mean they should be different. > Some of them are maintained in separate repositories, so contributors > get credit there (check the Codeowners file). So? Many of the subsystems of Linux are maintained in different repositories. And all those contributors have authorship. Git has absolutely no problem pulling all the history of a branch from another repository. > But you have to draw a line somewhere. Yes, you draw the line where the tool makes it extremely easy to provide authorship; the line is everyone that submitted a patch. > What about random articles on the internet criticizing Bram? Do they > deserve credits? This is a slippery slope fallacy [1]; you stop where it makes sense to stop. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope -- Felipe Contreras -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAMP44s15GJ561dQKTHry1mfx3CA4kQqXkpnQ2HqcV0E4U1Gu2Q%40mail.gmail.com.
