RE: howto: real author vs. repos author

[Guus Leeuw jr.]

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> address@hidden On Behalf Of Uwe Mayer
> Sent: dimanche 6 février 2005 03:20
> Subject: howto: real author vs. repos author
> 
> I maintain a project under GPL. People started using it, sending me
> patches
> and extensions to the program. I maintain a local versioning system to
> keep
> track of revisions.
> I need to know the propper way how to credit the users for patches or
> extensions send to me and having a $Author$ keyword substitution from my
> versioning system in the header of my files.

According to Cederqvist, Chapter 12 (stable release 1.11.19):
$Author$ 
        The login name of the user who checked in the revision.

According to GNU standards, which you are bound to when using GPL, there
*must* be a file called AUTHORS that *should* contain full name, current
email address and *could* contain the offered contributions.

Sounds all fairly simple to me:
a) Put the details in AUTHORS
b) Give them write access

b) is not as good as a) though: revision 1.1 checked in by 'kljhasd',
revision 1.2 checked in by 'asfda'... And $Author$ now points to 'asfda',
and 'kljhasd' can only be found browsing the revision history of that file,
or through cvs annotate.

Guus

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