Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] docs: Convert qemu-cpu-models.texi to rST

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 15:31, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 03:16:29PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 14:20, Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > diff --git a/docs/system/conf.py b/docs/system/conf.py
> > > index 7ca115f5e0..7cc9da9508 100644
> > > --- a/docs/system/conf.py
> > > +++ b/docs/system/conf.py
> > > @@ -18,5 +18,8 @@ html_theme_options['description'] = u'System Emulation User''s Guide'
> > >  man_pages = [
> > >      ('qemu-block-drivers', 'qemu-block-drivers',
> > >       u'QEMU block drivers reference',
> > > +     ['Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers'], 7),
> > > +    ('qemu-cpu-models', 'qemu-cpu-models',
> > > +     u'QEMU CPU Models',
> > >       ['Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers'], 7)
> > >  ]
> >
> > The old manpage/documentation credits Dan as the author,
> > so that's what we should specify in the conf.py line,
> > rather than 'Fabrice and the project devs' (which we
> > use for qemu-block-drivers.7 because that's what the
> > old texi version of that file specified as the authors).
>
> I agree that listing Fabrice explicitly here is wrong
> since he didn't write any of it.
>
> As the author, I don't feel a need for my name to be
> explicitly credited here. QEMU is a collaborative project
> and other people add text to this over time. Indeed IME
> explicitly listing an individual  encourages users to
> directly email the individual person with questions,
> instead of using the mailing list / irc / forums.
>
> Thus I would personally prefer if we just used
>
>   "The QEMU Project maintainers"
>
> as the author credit

Sure, if you want to update the author credit (which you
originally picked in commit 2544e9e4aa2bcef :-)) we can
do that, though our standard phrasing (see
the QEMU_COPYRIGHT #define in qemu-common.h) is
"The QEMU Project developers" so I'd rather we stuck
with that than "maintainers".

Mostly I want to avoid our rST conversion accidentally
dropping or changing existing authorship/attribution
information, so maybe we should change the authorship
in a follow-on patch.

thanks
-- PMM