The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
The CVS log message says:
fixes for _XtInherit on cygwin.
The hw/xfree86
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
> Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
> found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
>
> The CVS log message say
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
The CVS lo
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > Your commit didn't mention this either.
>
> Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
> attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual commit on the code change bears only your name.
A casual reader of that commit (and of t
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual commit on the code change bears only your name.
A casual reader of that co
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by
> committing them without proper attribution.
your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than
offering commit access to someone who solved a problem that (ac
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by
committing them without proper attribution.
your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than
offering commit access to someone who solve
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>Your commit didn't mention this either.
> >>
> >>Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
> >>attributed to Ralf Habacker:
> >
> >
> > tsk, tsk:
Do you actually do anything useful? Or do you just steal other people's
code and then act annoying (and childish) when someone calls you on it?
Argh. That was supposed to go to our good friend Thomas Dickey.
Somebody in Pittsburgh, PA stop by and slap me.
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Brian E. Gallew wrote:
> Do you actually do anything useful? Or do you just steal other people's
> code and then act annoying (and childish) when someone calls you on it?
You can see for yourself what he does:
http://invisible-island.net/
ftp://invisible-island.net/
Thomas
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual comm
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 11:32, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by
> > committing them without proper attribution.
>
> your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than
>
er 23, 2003 1:58 PM
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Subject: Re: Proper attribution of patches
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>Your commit didn't ment
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Put Ralf's name in the change log!!!
you first.
(hmm - that's an appropriate pun).
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ftp://invisible-island.net
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
> The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
> ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
no problem.
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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to
> attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community
> at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit.
yes, you're right. now I'll have to scrutinize
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Put Ralf's name in the change log!!!
you first.
Ralf's name is already in our change log, but our change log is not in CVS.
I guess I need to show you that you actively took credit for the patch
again:
The hw/xfree86/CHANGELO
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
I have not been rude in this discussion.
I have repeatedly asked you to attr
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
> > Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
> > found Ralf Habacker's patch an
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to
attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community
at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit.
yes, you're right.
Thanks.
n
Alan Hourihane wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> If you did get this code directly from Cygwin/X's tree then I'd of
> expected at least the credit to be apportioned to Harold at the very
> least, rather than putting your name against it. Ralf's name could have
> been corrected later, with
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
> >>ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
> >
> >
> > well that's polite enough.
> > unlike Haro
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote:
Thomas,
If you did get this code directly from Cygwin/X's tree then I'd of
expected at least the credit to be apportioned to Harold at the very
least, rather than putting your name against it. Ralf's name could have
been corrected
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
I have
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
> I see only minor inconsitency on his part, that the original commit of
> that code didn't attribute it to its author in the CVS logs, while at
> least some other commits do note authors of patches. However, he didn't
> explicitly take credit for it, like
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
[snip]
announcement of new packages with those changes reflects the author
correctly. I don't see Harold Hunt asking for his name to be on the
patch in any way, only the patch's author's name (the "members of the
Cygwin/X community" i
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> >>been corrected later, with a follow email from Harold.
> >>
> >>It's a simple change to put that right in the CHANGELOG. So I'll do that.
> >
> >
> > I had that on my next set of commits.
>
> Then why not say so earlier?
There was no point in doing
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
a lot of words.
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http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
been corrected later, with a follow email from Harold.
It's a simple change to put that right in the CHANGELOG. So I'll do that.
I had that on my next set of commits.
Then why not say so earlier?
There was no point in doing s
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
a lot of words.
The modus operandi of Thomas Dickey:
1) Stick head in sand
2) ???
Harold
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Sure there was: you would not have exposed yourself as a hypocrite by
> doing exactly that which you denounce on your home page (pointed out by
> Daniel Armburst). You lambast those "egotistical plagiarists" that
yes, I can imagine that you admire t
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 05:34:46PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>Sure there was: you would not have exposed yourself as a hypocrite by
>>doing exactly that which you denounce on your home page (pointed out by
>>Daniel Armburst). You lambast those "egot
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote:
I've seen your postings before, and have no use for your opinions.
(that seems to be a common trait of Harold's friends - I don't have to
address each one of them).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
David Dawes wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:25:52PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of th
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote:
I've seen your postings before, and have no use for your opinions.
(that seems to be a common trait of Harold's friends - I don't have to
addre
http://webpages.shepherd.edu/amihailo/
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Alec Mihailovs wrote:
> I didn't follow all of the discussion and I am not a friend
> of Harold, but I would be happy to become his friend in the
> future. Harold seems to be a really nice guy spending his
> free time on the Cygwin X development.
Agreed.
> Dickey seems to be
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