Hi all, Sorry for cross-posting, but 'someone' just triggered me and this applies to multiple packages, at least in theory:
On 10/7/19 7:33 PM, someone wrote (privately): > Trying to define authors of individual source files (as opposed to > individual commits) seems hopelessly subjective as they get extensively > edited over time. This was about the community removing author attributions in individual source files from glibc. I have been thinking about this as well recently, and 'someone's message succinctly describes the issue: we have @author comments, but they don't really reflect contributors. Often we forget to add, copy or even remove @author tags, and this is not easily fixed either. Naturally, this is not about removing (all) credit: we would still have both the top-level AUTHORS file and the attribution via the Git history. So, please do let me know if you (for whatever reason) would object to removing the per-source file @author attributions. If nobody has a (reasonable / sustained) objection, I'll probably remove the @author lines in a few weeks. Thanks! Christian
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