11 Nov
2007
11 Nov
'07
11:22 p.m.
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