Hi Timo,
In my opinion is just the opposite, move the information where it really belongs, when you talk about a developer or a translator working in a piece of code you refer them in a particular context , in this case a whole module, the same for mantainers or translators , they are global to the module.
I disagree here. IMO information about developers and translators belong to
svn. They should neither go into the sources nor into rbuild files. If you
want to find out about it, ask svn and it will tell you the exact name. We
also don't really have maintainers for most modules, so most rbuild files would >be spammed with the names of lots of developers without saying anything about who wrote a paticular piece of code.
I understand your point of view , but let me explain a little better what was the real intention behind developer/translator and maintainer elements , It was not really designed to replace svn author info nor developer names in source files .Also not anyone sending a patch should be in the mantainers/developers , The idea was to generate a "non strict" dinamic map of who has contributed significant amounts of code to a particular module or which developers are the current mantainers. Basically it was designed as a internal tool for us to assist ros developers and occasional contributors in finding the right person to contact , also can be useful to have a general idea of a developer profile just looking at the modules he has contributed more or less as a who is who on reactos (but dynamically created)
To summarize , it does not replace anthing just an enchancement.
Having said that this feature is not really important I thought it could be useful but I'm not opposite to remove it if we are not going to use it.
Regards,
Marc