[geeklog-devel] Credits to ourselves?

Vincent Furia vmf at abtech.org
Tue Mar 30 12:33:06 EST 2004


Sounds fine to me.  That way everyone can see what slackers the rest of 
us are compared to Dirk. ;)

A quick related question for Dirk:  I noticed that most of the changes 
to the "history" file are by you, do you want contributers to update the 
file as they fix things, or do you prefer to add to it yourself?

-Vinny

Dirk Haun wrote:

>With the addition of Vinny, there are now four people with CVS access
>contributing code on a (more or less) regular basis. Which brings up the
>issue of proper credits.
>
>I've always tried to properly credit code, fixes, and other things
>contributed by people outside of the core team. But what about the four
>of us now? Should we start putting our names after each change
>description? The PHP team does it like this, for example:
>
>    Fixed getopt() so it works without $_SERVER (Rasmus, bfrance)
>
>Personally, I don't care. I can always get the information I need (who
>made a change a when) from CVS. But I don't want to downplay anybody's
>role in this project or pocket someone's credits.
>
>So, do we add our names to docs/history or do we stick with the rule that
>changes without credits were made by an (unnamed) team member?
>
>bye, Dirk
>
>
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