On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Alexander Berntsen <berna...@gentoo.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 16/12/15 13:39, Rich Freeman wrote: >> I don't see how this is dishonest. > You answered this yourself, > >> They'll just be credited side-by-side with everybody else in once >> place.
How is this dishonest? I see how it is less granular in one particular format. All the current OpenRC authors will be credited. The granular details of their contributions will still be present in git, even if it is hard to access. We just won't credit them in the individual file they contributed to. Is there some practical situation where you see this as being disadvantageous to a contributor? If I'm an employer looking to hire somebody, knowing they contributed to openrc is probably as useful to knowing they contributed to /lib64/rc/bin/service_starting. If I REALLY care about the specific nature of their contributions, I'm going to care what their actual commits were, and for that matter if they were of a high quality. It seems like the current system is an intermediate level of detail that doesn't seem useful, just cumbersome (in the opinion of the maintainers - it isn't like I have to maintain this stuff). The other side of this is that you could argue that the openrc maintainers might be able to just save themselves some headaches and not host this stuff on Gentoo infra, and then they can just do whatever they want. It isn't like we tell the sysvinit maintainers how to manage their code, and it isn't like Gentoo is the only distro that uses openrc. -- Rich
