On Monday, September 21, 2015, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday, 21 September 2015 21:42:31 UTC-7, William wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Kwankyu Lee <ekwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I have written a couple of AUTHORS-blocks, but I think I did it not to >> have >> > a credit but to be responsible for the code. >> > >> > AUTHORS blocks are rather for developers, not for end users. >> These blocks >> > are rather hindrance for end users as they usually appear at the head >> of a >> >> When I "invented" this idea of AUTHORS blocks, they were definitelynot >> only for developers but also for end users. They were partly meant >> as an antidote to what happened with Magma when "they" deleted all the >> names of many of the contributors to Magma from the beginnings of the >> relevant sections of the reference manual, which pissed a lot of >> contributors off. >> >> When you read a mathematics paper you don't say "this statement of the >> authors of this paper at the top is not for readers and is a >> hindrance". >> >> If anything, I think we should systematically do vastly *more* to >> clearly acknowledge and appreciate the code contributors to Sage. >> They are by far the most important people to the existence of Sage. g >> > > I know at least one prolific Sage contributor who does not add himself to > AUTHORS block, > and actually is removing these blocks. > Who? Is he removing his own name or other people's name? > > IMHO we need an official policy on this. > > > >> -- William >> >> > documentation but these information, like TODO and TESTS, is not >> usually >> > what the user expects to see in the doc. These developer-oriented >> blocks >> > are better to be hidden or placed in less prominent place for the end >> users. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "sage-devel" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> William (http://wstein.org) >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
