Hey, On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 08:49 +0100, Frank Hofmann - OP/N1 RPE wrote: > [ ... ] > > of people who wrote the code in the source files. Sure, there's probably > > some Teamware logs, but that doesn't feel as public as something like a > > ChangeLog [1] or author credits in the source code headers. > > I'm not with you on that. The Solaris sourcecode is the product of the > hard work done by so many people that putting their names into the > sourcefiles directly, or even keeping a central repository "credits.txt" > (whatever) is only going to clutter things. It puts my name into a crowd > of thousands - and definitely not at the top of things. Why should I want > that ?
I was suggesting that putting names into the source code was occasional rather than be the norm [for example, when you create a new file], however something like a ChangeLog, or multiple ChangeLogs are a pretty good idea. They give a nice summary of the changes going back to the code, and an easy to find email address for people contributing to the code that you can contact. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15 I suppose in a way not unlike - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/onnv_putback_logs/putbacks_20051219.html Also remember that not everyone will initially have an account to commit their work. > For my part, I'm proud that the teamware logs reflect my work, successes > and failures (!) alike. It's a great trail of what I've worked on and how > well/bad I did on it. Almost like a mini-CV. Far more targeted and precise > than a global, huge "contributors.txt" that shows my name deep down within > a list of thousands. It makes me proud having my name appear on the v1.1 > line of a history file, although so far that only happened once. It makes > me proud being able to tell someone "look at what I did" instead of just > saying "hey I'm with the crowd". There's even some pride in backout logs > followed by re-putbacks of a fixed set of changes - I failed but yet I > persisted. Maybe we just need to automatically generate a ChangeLog based on the Teamware logs - ie. for each putback, it lists the files changed, the putback message, name and email of the person? And ideally the putback message will contain a reference to any contributed code. > A very personal opinion of mine. But since you brought it up, I just had > to speak out :) No, that's *totally* cool - it was just a suggestion to throw out there, on an observation that *currently* it's not very easy to see what things are going back into ON and who is responsible for doing what. Glynn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
