11 Nov
2007
11 Nov
'07
11:19 p.m.
On Nov 12, 2007, at 1:56 AM, Timo Kreuzer wrote:
There is standard per-file header for ReactOS source code (if it's
not used everywhere, it's a temporary problem), which lists
programmers, and it's usually (almost always) maintained. Whenever
our code is indexed by systems like Google codesearch, everyone can
clearly see the license and authorship from the source file.
Additionally, SVN holds exact per-line history of changes.
What's the benefit of storing authoship in .rbuild too? (I agree it
is logical, but if there is no benefit, then...)
WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.
Once again,
the data extracted from parsing is not TRUE metadata just
meaningless strings that you can guess or interpret : "author :
jdoe" ,
"author : jhondoe" , "author : jhon doe" are 3 different persons and
Jhon Doe just one , I think it's obvious.
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.