Tim O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:39, Mark R. Diggory wrote:
Also, can we now discuss dropping author tags?
What is your concern? Did I leave some out? Or are you suggesting we
drop them altogether?
It is unrelated to your commits, don't worry. Read this:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=1956
In general, author tags seem inappropriate for commons-math at the code
level. Records of committer and contributor involved are in CVS and in
the project members xdoc. If one really wants to find out how active a
committer is they can turn to statCVS.
I was a skeptic, but some of the posts on that other (public archived)
list, changed my mind.
Tim
I read the whole thread and I have to say its true as long as the
committing of patches is done in accordance with the cvs template and
the person who provided the code patch is identified in the comment
appropriately. Otherwise, theres really only the the contributors
section to establish who has contributed. I guess I'm ok with their
removal, I understand the tendency to get "territorial" about a section
of code, I am so guilty of that. Ah, such struggles are just the walk
down the path to enlightenment, detachment from material possessions
will lead you to bliss. Besides, do I really want to get bothered by an
email concerning this code some 15 years down the road when I'm old and
senile? Oh, wait I forgot about compassion...ok, I promise I'll still
answer emails in 15 years. At least by then we'll be able to send email
via telepathic implants...
Can you tell I've been at work too long today?
Mark
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Mark Diggory
Software Developer
Harvard MIT Data Center
http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
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