Hi, I've been thinking some weeks whether I should add to this what I'm going to add now. Also due to any lack of reply of Thomas to this bug I have decided to speak up now.
The normal policy for working with the fai svn, is that noone is allowed to
commit to trunk except Thomas. The occasional commit which fixes a typo is
ok, but thats about it. So normally development from other happens in people
branches. I cannot really say, how the changelog/copyrights are treated when
code is copied from there to trunk. (A quick search for "hank" (-> "(t|
T)ank(s)") in debian/changelog reveals one "Thanks" and if you search
for "by" you find one occasion where attribution is given.)
Besides that there is one generic THANKS file which lists very different
contributors but not their contribution(s).
I can share my frustration about the few occasions when I was allowed to fix
stuff in trunk. There were the commits r3585 r3598 and r4591, which mostly
fixed simple packaging issues. Which I correctly attributed to myself in
debian/changelog. This attribution was later removed by Thomas.
I have no idea why. If he wants to be the only one in changelog, he should not
let others do the work nor take their work.
And of course, this mail is not the first time I mention this. I have
mentioned this to Thomas privatly before previously, but havent insisted on
this, because it is somewhat minor (I mostly want fai to work and it usually
works great.). On the one hand, on the other hand its pretty discouraging to
see ones distributions not acknowledged.
disappointed,
Holger
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