Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On 5 Sep 2002, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
|
| > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| [...]
| > | Centralising the email addresses etc. in CREDITS means we don't have
| > | patches that touch heaps of files like Angus committed recently when
| > | he changed his email address. Instead his script could just add a
| > | line like:
| > |
| > | Full author contact details available in file CREDITS
| >
| > I can live with that as well.
| >
| > but it is a lot easier to remember to add self to the top of the very
| > same file you are editing, instead of CREDITS or MAINTAIERS...
|
| Just so I'm perfectly clear:
|
| /*
| * \file PreviewLoader.C
| * Read the file COPYING
| *
| * \author Angus Leeming
| *
| * Full author contact details available in file CREDITS
| */
|
| So you still add yourself to the top of the file but only once need to
| fill in an entry for CREDITS -- and then keep it updated as your
| contact details change.
|
| You only have to remember your name when you have a CREDITS entry ;-)
| Less typing too.
As said, I can live with it.
But I am not sure that this centralizing of information is good.
--
Lgb
