Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:23:43 +0300 From: Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 5b7c17856512 - main - git hooks: Rework authorship instructions. Message-ID: <CALH631kMq18zTnh8niedOxpQSxcdp5xX-wtVO7ccSV7TR74mdg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20210422104914.d3kwtrwl2jovwvu2@aching.in.mat.cc> References: <YIFK/tIpcfqWTWVh@FreeBSD.org> <FB32E75F-9AF0-41C2-9EE1-B10D931DECD0@freebsd.org> <20210422101616.c3i7dn6gfm6hhner@aching.in.mat.cc> <YIFTYpPMe43y6tU9@FreeBSD.org> <20210422104914.d3kwtrwl2jovwvu2@aching.in.mat.cc>
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 1:49 PM Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote: > Then you are misusing Submitted by. Submitted by was supposed to be > used when you committed something that was, well, submitted by someone > else. If the work is yours, and that you based your work on someone > else's, then, it is not submitted by them. > > -- > Mathieu Arnold > In the past I sometimes used "Submitted by (someguy, initial patch)" and still think it is a good thing. Creating an initial port is not only about typing something in the text editor, but also figuring out how to build the software. This is also quite an effort sometimes, invisible for the commiter, and I believe it should be credited.
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