[Buildroot] Buildroot manual: author list

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 27/05/14 21:45, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  >> I'm leaning more to a. or b. than to c.
>  >> The advantage of a. over b. is that there is no discussion about whose
>  >> name should be in the list (where to draw the line), while b. has the
>  >> advantage of giving more explicit credit.
> 
>  > As I suggested on IRC: what about a.+c.? Just change the introduction to:
> 
>  >     Buildroot manual by the Buildroot developers, see xref:credits[].
> 
>  > and add the appendix 'credits' at the end of the manual?
> 
> I would also suggest we go for a (unless any of the people explictly
> listed would disagree). We don't list authorship anywhere else (E.G. in
> the .mk files) in Buildroot, and it sounds like a pain to maintain such
> a list and decide what a 'major contribution' is.

 I agree with this. If we want to list contributors, it's more relevant to do
that for the entire codebase than just for the manual.

 On a side note however: Karsten Kruse, Ned Ludd, Martin Herren are *not* in the
shortlog of buildroot.html!

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Thomas (Petazzoni), what do you say?
> 


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