On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps a wider community of R users can weigh in on a > policy decision that was implicitly deemed acceptable on this > thread. Namely, that it is fine to arbitrarily and > for no reason deprecate the contributions of past > authors, and as more progress is made, even more > disparaging remarks can be added. > I agree with Hadley that the remark can hardly be seen as disparaging. As mainly an R user, I am quite surprised to find out that the rcpp package originates from you though, so I can understand you would personally like a line in the sense of "this package has been originally written by Dominick Samperi in 2005-2006" But then again, apparently quite a lot changed, so that would -again- leave a wrong impression and downweigh the effort done by others more recently. If only the name and a small portion of the code remained, well, so be it. Seems correct to put it that way. Frankly said: It ain't your package any more, it's a whole different thing. Whether or not deprecating the earlier efforts is a policy, is highly debatable. It seems more a matter of common sense to me: mention the authors of the _present_ code. And as it goes, I for one am not going to set "policies" or "politeness rules" in the R community or any other. Now personally, I sign the work I do, send it into the world, and don't bother once I stopped contributing. People who need to know what I'm worth, will see that in my recent and ongoing work. About all the rest, I couldn't be bothered less. Seems more healthy for the heart to me. Then again, I don't care that much about reputation anyway. I'd like to see my work used, rather than being praised for it. (this is a general remark, not directed towards you!) Cheers Joris -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
