Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 04:01:05 +1100 (EST) From: proff@suburbia.net To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: max@wide.ad.jp, max@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/shells/scsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <19970103170105.12966.qmail@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <16332.852262033@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 2, 97 07:27:13 pm"
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> 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 <proff@iq.org>
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