Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 09:27:35 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: proff@suburbia.net Cc: 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: <199701031727.JAA21552@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Jan 1997 04:01:05 %2B1100." <19970103170105.12966.qmail@suburbia.net>
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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> We have differing philosophies. As a person who writes and debugs FreeBSD on a daily basis, I definately don't want it obscured by dozens of email addresses all over the place. We provide the CVS tree to people so that they may extract diffs and read the logs to get this information. We always try to include the submitter w/email address in the CVS log, no matter how trivial the change. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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