[development] Giving credit for committed patches

Arnab Nandi arnabdotorg at gmail.com
Sat Mar 4 02:13:58 UTC 2006


Why not append users with @username, just like we do with #nodenumbers?

eg:.
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 Fixed #51384. Thanks @gordon
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Looks geeky, but this makes things reliably linkable, and lookupable,

(Also: http://drupal.org/node/52287 "Commit messages--providing
history and credit")

-Arnab




On 3/3/06, Steve Dondley <sdondley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And this is different from looking at the issue nid how?
>
> It's not different.
>
> But let's not lose site of the fact that it's not realistic to get a
> feel for who contributed what by visiting the patch discussion for
> each patch.  Generally those are never looked at again except when
> trying to determine the motivation behind hte patch.
>
> With the cvs commit messages, you can tell who contributed at a glance.
>


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