Hi Karl,
Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> writes:
> I'm wondering if it's useful these days to keep email addresses in the
> THANKS files. Besides being another source for spam harvesters, my guess
> is that many of the addresses are stale. Hence when I need some past
> contributor's email address, I don't bother looking in THANKS, I look in
> the ChangeLog and/or mail archives and/or search online.
I was going to say maybe this is a better discussion for
bug-standa...@gnu.org, but it seems the file isn't discussed in
standards.texi or maintain.texi.
I think the emails should probably be kept, since a name alone isn't
enough to identify someone. For example, there are many "Collin Funk"'s
alive today, but only I use <collin.fu...@gmail.com>.
Similarly, if my I leave my current employer and a THANKS file happens
to use that email, it would identify me as a contributor.
In Coreutils, our THANKS file has the following:
If your name has been left out, if you'd rather not be listed, or if
you'd prefer a different address be used, please send a note to the
GNU coreutils mailing list <coreut...@gnu.org>.
If someone cared about their privacy they could always request that. It
wouldn't help much since their email would be easily found in 'git
log'.
Collin
