On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:26 AM Sebastian Huber < sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> On 11/03/2020 16:50, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > > Proclaimed may not be the English word you mean. What do you think you > > are saying? > > > > We built a spreadsheet analyzing all contributions to the > > documentation based on source code logs. The original core > > documentation was entirely written by OAR. Soit was no surprise that > > at that point most of the documentation had still been written by OAR. > > Only a handful of other side ever submitted any documentation > > additions. That was primarily Gedare, Chris and Sebastian. We added > > those copyright notices to reflect the submissions we identified. The > > copyright notices in the texinfo files may not have been updated > > properly but OAR never asserted ownership of those submissions. We all > > were just sloppy. > > > > The addition of these notices reflected what we decided then. I don't > > see taking these out. > > > > That's compounded by a poor choice of English which makes it sound > > malicious on OAR's part > Sorry for the wording. It was not my intention to put OAR into a > malicious framing. I am not sure how we deal with attributions of > contributions before 2016. > I'm not offended. Just wanted to clear the record and not have anyone misread that. For those not privy to the history, I personally converted the documentation from Lotus AmiPro to Texinfo during the blizzard of 1993 [1] I am sure I put the original "OAR Corp; All Rights Reserved" on it then for lack of another idea. Very few people ever submitted to the documentation. In 2016 when we started discussing this, almost 96% of the documentation by blame was from OAR, embedded brains, and Chris. We got permission from everyone to relicense it. Now you are just trying to figure out how to keep the attribution as you rework it into specifications and input to documentation and code where possible. One think we noticed back then was that the contributions of size (100-600 lines) tended to be in very specific areas (CBS QoS, Driver Manager) when someone contributed a feature. I would bet this pattern still holds. Core developers write the bulk of the documentation. As I mentioned offline, if the first order worry is the Configuration chapter, I did a heavy rewrite that after 4.10. Before then the parameters were just bullet lists. Most of that is either me or git tracked edits. Worst case, the tracking spreadsheet was last updated 25 Feb 2016. You could check git blame for now and then if it is unchanged. This isn't much help beyond history. I just don't want attribution lost for people who made one time "chunky" contributions. --joel [1] Every county in Alabama had snow. Huntsville officially had 7 inches of snow. There was an ice dam at the end of my driveway about .5m high. I stayed home for days and ended up driving through the yard to leave via a neighbor's driveway. https://www.al.com/living/2016/03/alcom_vintage_-_march_1993_bli.html
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