[brlcad-devel] documentation authorship

2013-08-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On a related note, the authorship on many of these "new" old documentation files is highly inaccurate per our current standards of tracking contributions. There are very few documents where individuals listed are actually the only people that were involved in their creation. This holds particu

Re: [brlcad-devel] documentation authorship

2013-08-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > My suggestion would be (in cases like this were current documents are > based off of older ones) that the current version of the document note > that it is based off of the original document (by > Note my handling of authorship at rev 57345

Re: [brlcad-devel] documentation authorship

2013-08-30 Thread Clifford Yapp
My suggestion would be (in cases like this were current documents are based off of older ones) that the current version of the document note that it is based off of the original document (by title/number/whatever) without itemizing the old authors. If anyone wants to know, they can research the ba

Re: [brlcad-devel] documentation authorship

2013-08-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > On a related note, the authorship on many of these "new" old documentation > files is ... > Any thoughts on tracking authorship or doing like is done with sources and > removing all personal authorship or just trying harder to e

Re: [brlcad-devel] documentation authorship

2013-08-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Aug 30, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Tom Browder wrote:On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: On a related note, the authorship on many of these "new" old documentation files is ... Any thoughts on tracking authorship or doing like is done with sources and r