On 1 August 2015 at 20:33, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Isn't this limiting contributors to those mentioned in a commit log entry > or who push files to the repository? > it is, but that is not the key. The key is that the file is not used for tracking, but are generated from the logs. rgds jan i. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2015 11:06 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] make release 0.1 > > On 1 August 2015 at 19:59, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Peter Kelly wrote: > > > >> On 1 Aug 2015, at 10:18 pm, jan i wrote: > >>> +1, I assume you mean the file contains the names of people who have > >>> actively done commits on what is being released ? > >>> > >> Yes - everyone who’s name is present as an author or committer in the > git > >> log > >> > > > > I've seen this debated somewhere. I don't remember the answer, but maybe > > it's good to check with the Incubator PMC and ask. For sure it's stupid > to > > annotate the source files directly, and nobody is proposing this here. As > > for a separate file with contributors, I find it totally reasonable but I > > seem to recall a discussion saying that attribution at the ASF is tracked > > exclusively in version control logs... I don't remember seeing a > compelling > > reason for that anyway. > > > I remember the debate, and the keyword here is "tracked". We cannot use > CONTRIBUTORS to track e.g. people who do patches, that must in the version > control itself. > > But we can extract from the version control and generate CONTRIBUTORS. In > order to avoid discussions later (with IPMC), I would add a couple of > sentences in the top of the file, explaining how it is generated. > > rgds > jan i. > > > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > >
