Jim Meyering writes:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> Ralf just pointed this out to me:
>> http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#territoriality
>>
>> For an example of something that looks like territoriality, notice how
>> many tests/test-*.c files are attached to my name:
>>
>> $ git grep 'Eric Bl
First, adding author names to files suggests that there is some
ownership, in copyright terms,
No, I have to strongly disagree here. The copyright lines (not to
mention actual signed papers) are what count, not random commentary
lines.
new contributors tend to leave the existing aut
Eric Blake wrote:
> Ralf just pointed this out to me:
> http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#territoriality
>
> For an example of something that looks like territoriality, notice how
> many tests/test-*.c files are attached to my name:
>
> $ git grep 'Eric Blake' tests |wc
> 95 762
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> You should be able to feel reward by your name in a file that you wrote.
I don't have any feelings one way or the other on the application of
this principle to gnulib, but I thought I'd add two points to this
particular question all the same.
Hi Eric,
> Ralf just pointed this out to me:
> http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#territoriality
This view values "egalitarian spirit" and argues against written credits
in files for contributors. My opinion is different.
> Would anyone object if I removed most (if not all) 95 instance
Eric Blake writes:
> Would anyone object if I removed most (if not all) 95 instances of my
> name from those files, given the argument that 'git shortlog file'
> will still give a pretty good indication of who the original author
> was?
I support this. The only reason I've been putting my name
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Ralf just pointed this out to me:
> http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#territoriality
>
> For an example of something that looks like territoriality, notice how many
> tests/test-*.c files are attached to my name:
>
> $ git grep 'Eric
Ralf just pointed this out to me:
http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#territoriality
For an example of something that looks like territoriality, notice how
many tests/test-*.c files are attached to my name:
$ git grep 'Eric Blake' tests |wc
95 7626817
Would anyone object
