Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:01:53 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: dg@root.com Cc: proff@suburbia.net, 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: <199701032201.RAA16631@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199701031727.JAA21552@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jan 3, 97 09:27:35 am
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> > 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. > This subject is drifting from the original a little bit, but I really like to make sure that people know who came up with the "good idea." This includes perhaps the contributors name in the description (esp. when there are multiple parties ideas embodied in the commit.) I believe that there are few things that people get out of working on FreeBSD. The first and foremost is the feeling of accomplishment (and giving peer credit can reenforce that feeling.) Also, in a less altruistic direction, I have known people to get jobs, partially because they have contributed to the BSD (Free/Net) projects. I think that as a committer of other peoples code and ideas, it is very important to make sure that THEY get the credit for the work -- so that there is no confusion that it is my invention. In my little (VM) world, there are lately becoming some really powerful contributors. I would NOT like to see lots of chaffe floating around in the source code though. Excessive ifdefs are just as bad. John
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