From owner-cvs-ports Fri Jan 3 09:01:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA02400 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 09:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA02384 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 09:01:17 -0800 (PST) From: proff@suburbia.net Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA15128 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 09:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12967 invoked by uid 110); 3 Jan 1997 17:01:05 -0000 Message-ID: <19970103170105.12966.qmail@suburbia.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/shells/scsh - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <16332.852262033@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 2, 97 07:27:13 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 04:01:05 +1100 (EST) Cc: max@wide.ad.jp, max@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I think that everyone who's not core, development team (committers) or > documentation project should get a contributor entry. The alternative > would be to list everyone in the contributors list, but it just seems > kind of redundant to read something like "Principle Architect: David > Greenman" and "Contributor: David Greenman" on the same page; one > pretty much implies the other. :-) > > Jordan While we are ont he subject of credit, it would be nice if authors signed (with their email address in comments) new code. Modesty is a great FreeBSD virtue, but asside from have credit-where-it-belongs (literally), it is illuminating to know who wrote what when you are moving through a file. Before someone mentions cvs annotate, let me state that even if everyone was a committer and only commited their own work it it something asside from the edit process. -Julian