Saluton John :) On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:24:12 +1100, John Beckett dixit: > To summarise discussions (most recent being [1]): > > * It is unfair to credit some authors when the original tip was > simplistic or defective, and it's been fixed by wiki editors > (sometimes by merging in the imported comments). We should either > credit every significant contributor or none.
Totally agree here. > * We could remove the author field after ensuring that the author's > name is shown in the edit history (by having a script edit each tip > to put "original author NAME" in the summary). I'm going to suggest a bit more of "brutality" here. I think that Vim is all about community. Pride is OK, and so is being credited, but it shouldn't be the power behind contributing to the tips wiki, IMHO. So, having author names in the edit summary in the history of each wiki entry is very cool. People get credit for what they do, so it is near perfect, but taking the work of adding the original author names to the summary... well, I don't think it is worth the effort. This said, and because I usually know how people work inside, if the original author cannot add his name to the edit summary himself (which to me is a very good solution) then it should be added automatically using a script if at all possible. Otherwise someone (not me, certainly) could get mad ;) But the point I'm trying to make here is that if adding such information is a lot of work *for you*, then you should be credited for ALL the tips, exactly for that reason: you're doing a lot of work on them. It's good to know who contributed what because you may need to contact the author of a certain part of a tip (or even the original poster), but crediting should be done from now on by the author of the modifications themselves. If recovering the original authorship and adding it to the edit history is a pain... Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
