Guenter Knauf wrote: > William A. Rowe, Jr. schrieb: >> But since his comment, "my friend always prefers to stay anonymous" implied >> more >> than this single patch, it seems appropriate to call out the general concern. > you got this wrong - I meant that he prefers so at all other places too, > and not that he sends me tons of patches which I commit without > crediting him. > Also I would expect that someone who wants to be credited, and wants to > hold copyrights on his/her submission certainly would self subscribe on > the list, and submit self to the list.
Of course. I didn't mean to imply anything else, except to remind all committers of their responsibilities w.r.t. the iCLA. Roy is correct, that if he fixes a trivial typo, there is absolutely no need for an iCLA, or even for you to post credit where credit isn't desired. > My friend was long enough here subscribed on the list, and posted > patches, and got credited; thus it happened too often to him that he got > ignored (which is a general prob which happens to many others too), and > finally it was not worth for him to deal with the huge amount of spam > you get as a list subscriber (yeah, not everyone has a superdooper mail > filter) only for being ignored (remember I write here his opinion), and > so he unsubscribed, and some time later he anyway changed provider, and > is now happy without spam - so has no fun to start the spam game again. > Therefore I respect his desire to stay anonymous - which means more that > he dislikes to subscribe to lists, or have his mail address otherwise > appear on the inet; he's not anonymous to me. That shouldn't be an issue though if you attribute him with our regular convention of Joe Smith <jsmith foo.bar> since we drop the @ deliberately and require a human to parse out what we meant. Trust me, there is no human between the email address harvesting and the spam crops. > Quote from him just when I told him about our discussion here: > "well submit by yourself as needed to compile or leave out and have the > ***** author fix when report a compiler error" And a trivial fix emailed from anonym...@nowhere would also be accepted if posted (and by chance moderated) to the list. Thanks for intermediating these, just pay attention to the attribution requirements when a patch gets larger than a trivial fix :) Bill
