[development] Hit and run contrib

Gerhard Killesreiter gerhard at killesreiter.de
Sun Jun 1 14:34:27 UTC 2008


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Derek Wright schrieb:
>
> On May 29, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien wrote:
>
>> we encourage maintainers to commit patches and credit the contributor(s)
>> using a message of the following syntax:
>>
>> "#12345 by sun: Fixed coding-style."
>>
>> We are parsing the "#12345" bit, but why don't we also parse the "by sun"
>> bit to assign 'contributor credits' to users for the corresponding
>> project?
>
> Because killes said "I think enforcing conventions on cvs committers
> is a bad idea."


Well, we can of course ask nicely. ;)

It is probably in the best interest of a module maintainer to play
nice with the contributors.

Cheers,
	Gerhard
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