[gentoo-dev] Patches on bug reports: thanks but no thanks for the credit

[Jeroen Roovers]

For a good while now, I have been obsoleting ebuild attachments on as
yet unassigned bug reports and pasting proper unified diffs into
comments. I have been doing this so that the maintainers of these
ebuilds see the actual changes instead of a giant blob of code that the
submitter of the ebuild might want to see in the tree replacing the
original ebuild. Previously I also posted a notice asking submitters to
post unified diffs instead of entire ebuilds, but this didn't have a
noticeable effect so I discontinued that practice in favour of
just posting the unified diffs.

Unfortunately, this means that I sometimes get credit for posting
such comments. Please make note of the ebuild/diff replacement and
attribute the changes correctly to the submitter, not the messenger. I
shouldn't be getting the credit for them at all.


Regards,
     jer