People who have not signed a contributor agreement should not be listed as code authors: this leads to non-auditable contributions and a lack of clarity as to intellectual property ownership that can have negative consequences. If you want to make someone an author, confirm they are contributors before you do so, please.
regards Steve On Mar 6, 2011, at 4:55 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I do sometimes commit patches written by someone else. I tried to always > add him/her to Misc/ACKS and in the changelog entry (Misc/NEWS). With > git, it's possible to record an author different than the commiter. In > Mercurial, I see a --user option. > > Can I use this option to commit a patch written by someone else? Or is > there another option for that? > > If I use hg commit --user, is it possible to see somewhere that the > commiter was me? > > Victor > > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
