Hi Simon, On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote:
<SNIP> > I just checked that in the previous sage release tour the package > authors (David Green and I) are correctly named, and the description > of ticket #6491 clearly names both authors as well, and so does the > documentation. However, just my name was given as author of the > ticket. My understanding is that the release tour and the attribution > in the documentation are what counts in the end. I have changed ticket #6491 to also name David Green as an author of the code contained in the package pGroupCohomology. > Now it is ticket #6750. The new bits of code are entirely written by > myself, but of course most of the code for the new package version is > identical with the old version. My judgment would be: It is OK that I > am author of ticket #6750, but David Green must appear as one author > in the release tour. I must admit that it can be really difficult for me, or a release manager or a release tour writer, to work out who are the people writing the code contained in a ticket. Most of the time, I rely on whatever is written on the ticket, the username contained in patch files, and sometimes I would ask about how to attribute credit when in doubt. If your judgement is that another person should also be listed as an author in the "Author(s):" field, please put down the person's name in that field. When the time comes to write release notes and release tours, I would use the names contained in the "Author(s):" field as the people responsible for writing the code, the spkg update, or the spkg upgrade. I try as much as possible to synchronize the author(s) names between tickets, release notes, and release tours. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
