Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2021-07-11 - call for agenda items

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 07:31:22AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:27 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> On Wed, 07 Jul 2021, Robin H Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > TL;DR:
> > > Please change the format of metadata/AUTHORS to yaml-based list of "key:
> > > [value,...]" where key is the identity of a Gentoo developer, and the
> > > list is copyright holders that the developer has worked for.
> >
> > Using the Gentoo uid as the key would imply that contributors other than
> > developers cannot be listed in the file. Is this a valid assumption?
>
> I would say no.  Also, you can't assume that somebody introducing
> commits owned by some entity is employed or even associated with that
> entity.
I populated the example list based on tying the "Copyright: Sony Interactive
Entertainment Inc." commit messages to the author of those commits.

> The AUTHORS file is just a list of anybody who wishes (or who we
> assume might wish) to be acknowledged in the copyright attributions.
I'm not changing that, just associating for which contributor the
attributions MIGHT apply.

> If you want to be able to map commits to original copyright owners it
> would probably be better to add a git header for this.
And I note in my email that this does NOT replace the Copyright headers,
it simply tries to track in a single place all of the historical
assigned holders.

Some of my entries tie back to CVS commits a decade ago. It's not
possible to add headers on those entries.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
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