On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 02:54:31PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi all, > > I've added to BCC everyone whose copyright notices have been removed > (those that noted an email). The full thread for this discussion can be > found here: > > > Please let me know if it's okay to you to transform your copyright > notices to make them uniform? That is, do you approve > > in what affects you? Hi Alejandro, I approve. Thanks! Stefan > > I've generated the BCC with > > $ git show 9f2986c34166085225bb5606ebfd4952054e1657 -- man \ > | grep '^-[^-]' \ > | grep @ \ > | grep -o '[^ ]*@[^ ]*' \ > | sed 's/,//g' \ > | sed 's/\.$//' \ > | sed 's/.*(//' \ > | sed 's/ | sed 's/>//' \ > | sed 's/\.)//' \ > | sed 's/)//' \ > | sort \ > | uniq \ > | sed 's/^/Bcc: /'; > > > Have a lovely day! > Alex > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:28:29PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Hi Carlos, > > > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 04:18:35PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > > On 4/8/25 8:42 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > Hi Alex, > > > > > > > > At 2025-04-08T01:05:02+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 12:20:58AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 05:02:10PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > > > > If you do this, I suggest you replace these lines with something > > > > > > > like: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > .\" See the Git revision history at > > > > > > > .\" $URL > > > > > > > .\" for records of changes and contributors to this file. > > > > > > > > > > > > Good idea. > > > > > > > > > > I'm thinking I won't do that. I don't want to add that overhead to > > > > > each page. People interested in the history of a page will already > > > > > have a look at the git history, and there they'll find the old states > > > > > of a page, in which they'll find this information. > > > > > > > > > > And it would require some non-trivial work to add this note > > > > > consistently. I'll go with a removal without replacement, I think. > > > > > > > > Acknowledged. It's been a whole 7 weeks for so, so I don't clearly > > > > remember my reasoning from February, but my suggestion may have been at > > > > attempt to find a "conservative" alteration to file content or the > > > > expressed meaning of the comments. > > > > > > > > But, what's conservative in one dimension often is not in another, such > > > > as "labor required". > > > > > > > > I also agree that while Git is a complex suite of tools, "git log" is > > > > not among its deeper magicks. At least not when run without arguments. > > > > > > We did something similar in glibc and created a CONTRIBUTED-BY file at the > > > top-level and moved all contribution lines out of the respective > > > files into the top-level file. > > > > Yep, a CREDITS file would be interesting. I wouldn't keep info about > > which specific files were written by each contributor. That seems > > something more appripriate for git-log(1). The pre-git contributions > > will be visible in old versions of the pages (i.e., if one sees > > Jane Random Developer in CREDITS and wonders which pages she contributed > > to, they can `git log -S 'Jane Random Developer'` and similar commands > > to find out. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Have a lovely night! > > Alex > > > > > > > > e.g. > > > ~~~ > > > The glibc project stopped adding "Contributed by" lines to source files in 2012 > > > in favour of acknowledging contributors in the glibc manual and through the git > > > log. The record of existing "Contributed by" lines have now been moved to this > > > file to acknowledge contributions by these developers to glibc. > > > > > > argp/argp-test.c: > > > Written by Miles Bader . > > > > > > argp/tst-argp1.c: > > > Contributed by Ulrich Drepper , 2002. > > > ... > > > ~~~ > > > The top-level CONTRIBUTED-BY has ~3,000 Contributed/Written by lines. > > > > > > Sme of the authors predated the use of git and so it was simpler to keep the > > > lines somewhere as part of the transition away from "Contributed by"-style > > > lines. > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > > > Carlos. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > -- >