Dear all On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamp...@gmail.com> wrote: > The author line of the latest release of the R package > Rcpp (0.8.9) was revised as follows: > > From: "based on code written during 2005 and 2006 by Dominick Samperi" > > To: "a small portion of the code is based on code written during 2005 and > 2006 by Dominick Samperi" > >From the info given in the thread, personally I'm sympathetic to Dominick's complaint: the latter message is no proper way to acknowledge the original author of the package. As I see it, the project either: - explicitly mentions the original author and the active (current) contributors (and perhaps previous ones), or - lines up all previous contributors in a line and singles out the active contributors
But saying that the original author's contributions represented some coding of random importance (implied in the message above), only a subset of which made it to the current release, sounds disparaging to my ears, too. My humble opinion Liviu ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel