Re: [PATCH 3/7] use gnulib to print --help and --version

[Reuben Thomas]

On 31 December 2013 23:24, Sami Kerola <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> #define AUTHORS \
>   proper_name ("Original Author"),
>   proper_name ("Second Major Contributor"),
>   proper_name ("Firstname Lastname")
>

Hmm, that's cute, but it is sadly not actually "true" for hello. It does
raise an interesting question though: I usually put the current maintainer
first (to avoid lazy users bothering ex-maintainers).

I think in the case of hello, if we can't establish who wrote most of the
code, we should either list all the main contributors from AUTHORS, or just
give them a collective name ("GNU hello contributors") or some-such. Or
omit them, as many programs do (e.g. coreutils).

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