On 06/08/11 20:18 +0200, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: > A Dissabte, 6 d'agost de 2011 20:04:33, Cédric Krier va escriure: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to propose to drop 'author', 'email' and 'website' from > > __tryton__.py > > Those informations are duplicate with the content of COPYRIGHT and most of > > the time doesn't reflect the reality. > > In our experience those fields are good to have. Companies like to have > visibility and this is a good way to promote the company while contributing > at > the same time.
It is not really the right place to make promotion. > In OpenERP we've gained customers because they searched for the > companies that had contributed the most to the project. This doesn't necessary give the real image of the greater contributors. Also it forgets the contribution of the translators, the testers, the reviewers etc. I don't see why the guys who wrote the code should have a better advertising and not the others. > In Spanish localization several modules have been developed by several > companies and in those cases, several names are added in the 'author' entry > and sometimes simply "Spanish Localization Team" is shown. Usually companies > only add themselves there if they have added a significant improvement or > refactoring and have had no problems so far with this. If there is no rules then it is a weak point for disagrements. > Of course, that information could always be calculated out of the COPYRIGHT > but that would probably take too much effort for this need, but it is an idea > to keep that up to date. I don't see why duplicate information. -- Cédric Krier B2CK SPRL Rue de Rotterdam, 4 4000 Liège Belgium Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 Email/Jabber: cedric.kr...@b2ck.com Website: http://www.b2ck.com/
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