From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 8 4:34:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mppsystems.com (mppsystems.com [208.210.148.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6E737BAC5; Mon, 8 May 2000 04:34:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpp@mppsystems.com) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mppsystems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA65083; Mon, 8 May 2000 06:34:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 06:34:12 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard To: Doug Barton Cc: Nik Clayton , Sean Kelly , doc@FreeBSD.ORG, jim@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Credit where it's due Message-ID: <20000508063412.D64839@mppsystems.com> References: <000001bfb49e$f2a33d40$24d39580@jpl.nasa.gov> <20000504030430.A21461@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <39164DE7.F99E6DE5@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39164DE7.F99E6DE5@gorean.org>; from DougB@gorean.org on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 10:17:27PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 10:17:27PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > > My personal preference would be that the credit show up along with the > work. However, in order to avoid the insanity in points three and four > above, I'd say that this would be an acceptable compromise if the weight > of opinion goes against keeping the credit in the chapter. How about using man pages as an example. Most of our added on utilities w/man pages include a AUTHORS section which credits the person who wrote the utility, and sometimes the actual author of the manual page (if different than the person who wrote the utility). I know I was a little annoyed when I noticed my credit on the quota section of the handbook was removed, even though it looks like it is still at least 90% of my original text. I then did a little checking to see if we just weren't doing that in the handbook anymore (I haven't done anything with the handbook in a long time, so I wasn't sure), but found that some sections still had the original credits, and some didn't. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message