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On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 06:01:58PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, Andrey Utkin wrote: |
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> > It seems to me this will grow huge, and be the source of annoyance for |
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> > users. |
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> IIUC the file has a specific purpose, namely to solve the copyright |
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> attribution problem. So only those entities who would otherwise add |
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> themselves to ebuild headers must be listed there. |
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> > There's a plausible opinion that today's Unixes will stay around |
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> > forever: |
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> > https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/DurableCurrentUnixes |
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> > And obviously Gentoo is the best flavour of them, so... |
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> > Are there any long-lived community FOSS projects maintaining such |
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> > file? |
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> GNU Emacs: |
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> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/AUTHORS |
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> They add everyone who has contributed, and after 33 years the file |
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> has grown to 170 kB, which I think is still acceptable. We have some |
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> Manifest files that are much larger. |
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> So I don't think we would run into problems anytime soon, even if we |
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> added everybody (which we shouldn't, IMHO). |
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Agreed, we should not add every developer to this file by default. |
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On the other hand, if some person or organization requests to be added, we |
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should not refuse to add them, imho. |
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William |
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