Re: Proposal: Drop author fields from copyright headers

2013-08-23 Thread Alan Griffiths
On 23/08/13 04:27, Robert Ancell wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to propose we drop the author fields from the copyright > headers in Mir - they're very hard to keep up to date and more > accurate information can be retrieved using 'bzr annotate'. Chances > are they either only list the initial autho

Re: Proposal: Drop author fields from copyright headers

2013-08-22 Thread Robert Ancell
https://code.launchpad.net/~robert-ancell/mir/kill-author-fields/+merge/181704 On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Robert Ancell wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to propose we drop the author fields from the copyright headers > in Mir - they're very hard to keep up to date and more accurate informatio

Re: Proposal: Drop author fields from copyright headers

2013-08-22 Thread Daniel van Vugt
I think it does make sense to have author fields when they're accurate. Hopefully people will have some pride in new source files they write. But more importantly, if the author field is accurate then you know who to ask about the code. The issues we've had recently were just bzr getting conf

Proposal: Drop author fields from copyright headers

2013-08-22 Thread Robert Ancell
Hi all, I'd like to propose we drop the author fields from the copyright headers in Mir - they're very hard to keep up to date and more accurate information can be retrieved using 'bzr annotate'. Chances are they either only list the initial author or are copied and pasted from other code [1]. Mo