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On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:20:43AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> The agenda is still open for additional items that the council should |
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> discuss or vote on. For agenda items, please respond to this message |
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> on the gentoo-project mailing list. |
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Hi, |
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TL;DR: |
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Please change the format of metadata/AUTHORS to yaml-based list of "key: |
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[value,...]" where key is the identity of a Gentoo developer, and the |
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list is copyright holders that the developer has worked for. |
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Longer: |
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metadata/AUTHORS was never specified in any GLEP, so I'm asking Council |
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rather than proposing a GLEP. |
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I'd like the council to consider improving the formatting of the |
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metadata/AUTHORS file, per bug #730200. Specifically comment 1: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/730200#c1 |
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The existing format specifies the name of a legal entity, but doesn't |
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explicitly associate a given developer with that entity. Some |
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bikeshedding suggested that new entries could associate via the git |
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commit messages, but that doesn't account for historical entries. |
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I've contributed to Gentoo while on the employment income and/or |
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consulting work for at least 9 different organizations in the past 18 |
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years, and some of them should be recognized as potential copyright |
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holders for my works. |
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I think the suggested format should become YAML-based for ease of |
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validation and parsing. I don't have opinions on the format within the |
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data. Should it be alphabetical or cronological? Should explicit date |
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ranges be possible? |
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Example of potential new file, with existing header omitted for brevity. |
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mgorny: |
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- Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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williamh: |
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- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. |
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dolsen: |
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- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. |
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chutzpah: |
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- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. |
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wizardedit: |
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- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. |
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zmedico: |
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- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. |
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gyakovlev: |
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- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. |
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robbat2: |
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- Technical University Of British Columbia (TechBC) |
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- Simon Fraser University |
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- Net-Conex Business Solutions Inc |
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- Epik Networks Inc |
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- IsoHunt Web Technologies Inc. |
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- Global NetOptex Inc |
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- Merkle: The Gallery Group |
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- BC Libraries Cooperative 2009 |
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- MappingBook Ltd |
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- Experq Oy |
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# vim: ft=yaml: |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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