[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Patches should always be attributed. The project convention is to > attribute patches. I vote -1 on any proposal to stop attributing patches.
I'd quit this project if this ever happens. Serious. Credits are the only thing that drives open source and the only way an open source project can pay back its contributors. During JServ development there was a big discussion about "what" should be credited. Most of us agreed that anything that influences the state of the program should be given credits: even a very good bug report with no patch. Of course, people understand themselves when it's honest to ask for such credits to be included, but normally people are afraid to talk... look at cocoon changes.... lots of them, lots of people listed...some have big names, some don't (probably, yet!). My first patch on an apache project happened in nov 97: jserv logs were using Stack instead of Vector and you were getting the logs backwards causing pain for servlet debugging. The patch was included and I loved to see my name on that list. If felt so good, now I want my name everywhere :) ...yeah, I know... that's probably too much :) but you get my point. Stefano.
