Re: Contributors should be mentioned in the credits or changelog

[Havoc Pennington <hp Mcs Net>]

This should certainly be done, it is only courteous. When it isn't it's
probably an oversight rather than a deliberate omission, I hope you'll
bring it to the attention of the developer involved.

Havoc

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 jwb@cp.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of the reasons I contribute to free software is to see my name in
> the Credits or ChangeLog file of the package.  If a developer takes the
> time to contribute a patch to the GNOME project, I think that the
> developer should be noted in the Credits or in the ChangeLog entry for
> the patch he contributed.  This need only be in the form of "Fixed bug
> #nn, thanks to John Q. Developer <john@developer.org>".
> 
> Currently, this is being done by some GNOME core developers, but not
> others.  I always note my contributors in my Credits, and I think it
> would be courteous if GNOME would do the same for us.  Not noting a
> contributor is akin to taking credit for someone else's work.
> 
>              Cheers,
>              Jeffrey
> -- 
> Jeffrey W. Baker
> Critical Path, Inc
> Speaking for myself only, of course
> 
> 
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