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From: Dawid Weiss <dawid.weiss@cs.put.poznan.pl>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 22:55:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: remove "via"
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I think I understand your viewpoint but I'll stick with mine for now
(that is: I don't care for 'via' attribution in CHANGES.txt, but I
also don't object it -- I'll stick with whatever consensus there will
be).

Dawid

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Mark Miller <markrmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Dawid Weiss wrote:
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>> As
>> far as important stuff is done I wouldn't worry about who gets the
>> credit...
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> I think that's kind of short sighted. These credits matter to some, and m=
any of these things, while they may not matter to us personally, that does =
not make them unimportant as far as our structure and policies going forwar=
d.
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> While it may sound magnanimous to say, credit be damned, that's just ment=
al masturbation, as long as the work comes in thats fine, I think it ignore=
s the bigger picture. Why does Random Bum #2 get a credit in a movie? Do si=
mple credits like this have value or not? And if they have value for outsid=
e contributors, do they also have value for committers when committing some=
one else's work? I know I was pumped the first time I got my name in the Lu=
cene changes. Does it matter so much these days? No. But I wouldn't presume=
 to make that call for others or future committers.
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> I have always been a fan of our credit system, and I think it serves it's=
 purpose well. When I look for things like this, I don't start tracking dow=
n JIRA issues and SVN commits. I simply browse CHANGES.txt. I search for th=
e number of occurrences for a user name, I look at how long its been since =
someone has been active, I check who likes to commit others work, etc. I've=
 done all that at one time or another. I know there is a name or two in par=
ticular that mostly just commits others work if I remember right. If someon=
e commits 1000 of someone else's patches, but does not author any, should t=
hey have no entry in CHANGES.txt? That sounds absurd to me.
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> It's a great place for prospective employers to look as well.
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> Personally, I currently don't have much stake in my name showing up in CH=
ANGES.txt. It's currently easy enough to find a job regardless, and my ego =
is already fat and happy. But I would not evaluate these things personally =
- I evaluate them from the perspective of this project going forward - with=
 the idea that there may be a completely new set of committers in 5 years t=
ime. What is the best policy for the project, not my own feelings about wan=
ting or not wanting credit for something.
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> - Mark Miller
> lucidimagination.com
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