Patches should always be attributed. The project convention is to attribute patches. I vote -1 on any proposal to stop attributing patches.
Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 3:41 PM Subject: Attribution for patches > > > > Someone sent in a small fix for the URL class the other day. I made that > change and checked it in. He then sent a message indicating that other > Apache projects give attributions (in the change log?) for patches, and why > didn't we do it. I'm saying 'he' here because it was sent to a mail account > on one of the apache servers, and I don't have any normal mail account > there. It kind of showed up partly when I logged onto the server via secure > CRT, so I could only see some of it. > > Anyway, I guess we can discuss it. Personally, having written almost all of > it and not having given myself any attributions per se, I didn't really > think about it. And, personally, I'm not sure I want to add any more gorp > to the change logs. But, if everyone else besides me thinks this is > important to get people to contribute, then certainly I will agree. > > We do have a 'contributors' file, but I assume its reserved for more > significant (sizewise I mean, any bug fix is significant in terms of > usefulness :-) contributions. > > Anyway.. anyone want to share their feelings on this subject? Do we need to > put in attributions for provided patches, no matter how big or how small > (Wasn't that a Dr. Seus story?) > > ---------------------------------------- > Dean Roddey > Software Weenie > IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
