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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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