I raised this issue a few years ago, and no consensus was reached [1] I'm asking if we can take the time to revisit the issue. Back then it was subversion days, and you had "patch-uploaders" and "contributors". With git now, I believe the situation is even a bit more extreme, because the committer is the contributor and the lucene "committer" was really the "pusher".
On the other hand, there were some reasons against removing this before. In particular some mentioned that it conveyed meaning about who might be the best person to ping about a particular area of the code. If this is still the case, I'd ask that we discuss alternative ways that it could be accomplished (such as wiki page perhaps linked-to HowToContribute that ppl can edit). I wrote a new summary/argument inline, but see the linked thread for the previous discussion: In the past CHANGES.txt entries from a contributor have also had the name of the committer with a 'via' entry. e.g.: LUCENE-1234: optimized FooBar. (Jane Doe via Joe Schmoe). I propose we stop adding the committer name (via Joe Schmoe). It seems to diminish the value of the contribution. It reminds me of a professor adding a second author by default or something like that. If someone really wants to know who committed the change, I think its fair that they look at version control history? 1. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-dev/201206.mbox/%3CCAOdYfZW65MXrzyRPsvBD0C6c4X%2BLuQX4oVec%3DyR_PCPgTQrnhQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
