From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Paul Schmidt Subject: Re: proposal: add "packagers" field (list of strings (names)) to package definition Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 23:16:00 +0100 Message-ID: <565F6DA0.9040609@gmx.net> References: <565D565C.4030208@gmx.net> <20151201173518.GA18163@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36483) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4Fh4-0006et-Dh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:16:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4Fh1-0007vS-3w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:16:10 -0500 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:59453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4Fh0-0007uv-R3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:16:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20151201173518.GA18163@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 12/01/2015 06:35 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: > All the contributors do get attribution in the copyright notice at > the top of each file, although that information is not linked to > their actual contributions except through git. If they feel their contribution is significant enough to even warrant an entry there. [snip] > Plus I can see some "political" issues in the future where people > lay claim to parts of the code base and justify it based on their > name being in the packager field. Personally, I think we should > avoid creating these sorts of bureaucracies if its not necessary. Sure, there's a tradeoff there. If the intended semantics are communicated clearly I don't see that problem. > I noticed that the NixOS github has a "mention-bot" that > automatically contacts people based on `git blame` if their old > code is subject to a pull request. You can see it in action here: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/11329 > > I think we should let the git repository be the single source of > truth for figuring out who is responsible for the code. If > necessary, we can build some automation around the git repo. Yeah, I like the nixos workflow quite a bit. github is a pretty nice tool, but sadly nonfree, thus a machina non grata for guix. The nixos devs actively encourage people to add themselves to the maintainer fields btw.. Flo - -- https://fps.io -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWX22gAAoJEA5f4Coltk8Zb+8H/3qprqfKFCzK6049IGMm5EZl +RVZICpFcvZQH8QLsNeBrkiDfqEq/lTDg7A6emW38GttxSTE4OCy8rUNy9y73TDB WdSaglazbYHH3HKv4vIZQSTmkODDkuHS0HtTjgTxqicOSwZBChyhEP2jW04rvMCg ihSigW/MvASkLSwUH2ridL5kHyfDCzdipOy9WnysLsAlTVJi7SUwLvk6hAx2IP3l km7qm0ZDFSwglM5NeUHitYHr8eZ0GJLTXNi+lhucXucg+OgpR3pozTkTpX5XjEUG TnhxnlNhLCt2tGL9LWpRVqE80va8SHON96q8HX3XYy2RxIzpG2mds7ue5RNQcJM= =IUiM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----