Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 09:55:13 -0400 From: jspath@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us (Webmaster Jim) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, jspath@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us (Webmaster Jim) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports? Message-ID: <9608251355.AA12557@mail> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> "Re: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports?" (Aug 24, 10:54am)
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On Aug 24, 10:54am, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: } > How would you deal with "original" versus "current" author, e.g., } > "XPaint" was written by David Koblas but is now being maintained by } > Torsten Martinsen? } I'd list Torsten. If somebody's abandoned something, they've abandoned it. That sounds fair. How about also some pointer to a file in the source code indicating the author(s)? In the case of something like X3270, it's quite a genealogy. -- I don't speak (or work) for the Baltimore County Public Library. They keep telling me, "Shhhhh!"
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