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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, council@g.o, chutzpah@g.o
Cc: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@×××××.com>, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] AUTHORS file for portage repository
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 20:34:43
Message-Id: 1543350874.15333.4.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] AUTHORS file for portage repository by Craig Andrews
1 On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 15:29 -0500, Craig Andrews wrote:
2 > On 27.11.2018 15:23, William Hubbs wrote:
3 > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:15:08PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > > On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 14:07 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > > > > All,
6 > > > > I just picked a random msg to reply to on the thread.
7 > > > >
8 > > > > Here is the updated AUTHORS file I would like to commit.
9 > > > >
10 > > >
11 > > > You should include at least all current developers with commit access.
12 > > > Because otherwise, this really looks like all Gentoo work was done by
13 > > > the Foundation (which didn't do any work at all) and Sony, entirely
14 > > > neglecting the huge effort done by many individuals.
15 > >
16 > > No, that is definitely not the case. all devs aren't required to be
17 > > listed; only those who want to be [1].
18 > >
19 > > There is no way to contact everyone and see who wants to be listed, if
20 > > someone wants to be listed they can let us know.
21 > >
22 > > William
23 > >
24 > > [1] https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/authors/
25 >
26 > I think an AUTHORS file is very much a less than ideal solution.
27 >
28 > To point out the absurdity, please include me - It'll be nice to see
29 > only 3 names in the AUTHORS file with mine being first (hooray for
30 > alphabetical order!)
31 >
32
33 Please don't forget we're talking about Gentoo, so brace for 2 weeks of
34 bikeshedding over whether first or last name should come first.
35
36 --
37 Best regards,
38 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] AUTHORS file for portage repository Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>