From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 07:27:02 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot manual: author list In-Reply-To: <871tvfdmyx.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <20140527193640.GE3503@free.fr> <871tvfdmyx.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <538573A6.6080503@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 27/05/14 21:45, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN 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? > -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F