On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 18:30:03 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 18:11:16 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
Copyright is extremely under-reported for Phobos, in my
experience -- authors of significant components of modules do
not necessarily add their name to the copyright list or even
the author list.
Yes that's a huge problem. I tried to tackle this with this
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1307
It's currently pending, so make noise if you find this useful
too ;-)
Er ... not that I wish to dampen your enthusiasm, but don't you
have another project to be working on? ;-)
Specifically on that PR: I think it's problematic to try
auto-adding all contributors to modules, because author (and
copyright) credits should generally be given for _significant_
contributions -- authoring functions and data structures, etc. --
not for minor tweaks and fixes.
Historically with Phobos, I think there's an extent to which
adding one's name to the author list was also taken as an
indication of being willing to take some level of active
maintenance duty for its contents. (I don't personally agree
with that idea, but it was mentioned to me at a point where I was
adding my name to the authors list of a module.)
