From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up 'THANKS' and 'AUTHORS'.
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:03:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj3h2vrn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150629193555.GA7732@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:35:55 +0200")
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
> The measure of contribution of any one individual cannot be determined by
> any parametric algorithm.
‘THANKS’ definitely has to be maintained manually, for the reason you
give. There are people who are helping in ways that do not involve Git
commits, and we want to acknowledge that.
‘AUTHORS’ is meant to list people who contributed code, so generating it
is fine IMO.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-30 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-27 17:53 [PATCH] Clean up 'THANKS' and 'AUTHORS' Alex Kost
2015-06-27 18:00 ` Andreas Enge
2015-06-27 23:42 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-06-27 18:35 ` Paul van der Walt
2015-06-27 23:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-06-28 0:14 ` Paul van der Walt
2015-06-28 7:54 ` Alex Kost
2015-06-28 9:25 ` Paul van der Walt
2015-06-28 17:34 ` Alex Kost
2015-06-28 18:28 ` Alex Kost
2015-06-28 20:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-29 19:26 ` Generate 'AUTHORS' Alex Kost
2015-06-29 19:51 ` Cyril Roelandt
2015-06-30 12:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-30 19:26 ` Alex Kost
2015-06-30 20:56 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-06-30 22:28 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-07-01 9:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-02 5:46 ` [PATCH] Add '.mailmap' Alex Kost
2015-07-02 12:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-04 9:43 ` [PATCH] build: Generate 'AUTHORS' Alex Kost
2015-07-04 10:33 ` "/build-aux" in ".gitignore" (was [PATCH] build: Generate 'AUTHORS'.) Mathieu Lirzin
2015-07-05 21:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-06 9:46 ` [PATCH] Prevent Git from silently ignoring new files Mathieu Lirzin
2015-07-06 16:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-05 21:45 ` [PATCH] build: Generate 'AUTHORS' Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-29 19:35 ` [PATCH] Clean up 'THANKS' and 'AUTHORS' John Darrington
2015-06-29 20:02 ` Cyril Roelandt
2015-06-30 13:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-07-02 5:46 ` Alex Kost
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