I think I understand your viewpoint but I'll stick with mine for now (that is: I don't care for 'via' attribution in CHANGES.txt, but I also don't object it -- I'll stick with whatever consensus there will be).
Dawid On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Dawid Weiss wrote: > >> As >> far as important stuff is done I wouldn't worry about who gets the >> credit... > > I think that's kind of short sighted. These credits matter to some, and many > of these things, while they may not matter to us personally, that does not > make them unimportant as far as our structure and policies going forward. > > While it may sound magnanimous to say, credit be damned, that's just mental > masturbation, as long as the work comes in thats fine, I think it ignores the > bigger picture. Why does Random Bum #2 get a credit in a movie? Do simple > credits like this have value or not? And if they have value for outside > contributors, do they also have value for committers when committing someone > else's work? I know I was pumped the first time I got my name in the Lucene > changes. Does it matter so much these days? No. But I wouldn't presume to > make that call for others or future committers. > > I have always been a fan of our credit system, and I think it serves it's > purpose well. When I look for things like this, I don't start tracking down > JIRA issues and SVN commits. I simply browse CHANGES.txt. I search for the > number of occurrences for a user name, I look at how long its been since > someone has been active, I check who likes to commit others work, etc. I've > done all that at one time or another. I know there is a name or two in > particular that mostly just commits others work if I remember right. If > someone commits 1000 of someone else's patches, but does not author any, > should they have no entry in CHANGES.txt? That sounds absurd to me. > > It's a great place for prospective employers to look as well. > > Personally, I currently don't have much stake in my name showing up in > CHANGES.txt. It's currently easy enough to find a job regardless, and my ego > is already fat and happy. But I would not evaluate these things personally - > I evaluate them from the perspective of this project going forward - with the > idea that there may be a completely new set of committers in 5 years time. > What is the best policy for the project, not my own feelings about wanting or > not wanting credit for something. > > - Mark Miller > lucidimagination.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
