Someone sent in a small fix for the URL class the other day. I made that
change and checked it in. He then sent a message indicating that other
Apache projects give attributions (in the change log?) for patches, and why
didn't we do it. I'm saying 'he' here because it was sent to a mail account
on one of the apache servers, and I don't have any normal mail account
there. It kind of showed up partly when I logged onto the server via secure
CRT, so I could only see some of it.
Anyway, I guess we can discuss it. Personally, having written almost all of
it and not having given myself any attributions per se, I didn't really
think about it. And, personally, I'm not sure I want to add any more gorp
to the change logs. But, if everyone else besides me thinks this is
important to get people to contribute, then certainly I will agree.
We do have a 'contributors' file, but I assume its reserved for more
significant (sizewise I mean, any bug fix is significant in terms of
usefulness :-) contributions.
Anyway.. anyone want to share their feelings on this subject? Do we need to
put in attributions for provided patches, no matter how big or how small
(Wasn't that a Dr. Seus story?)
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Dean Roddey
Software Weenie
IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley
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