[Open-graphics] Subversion commit policy

[Timothy Normand Miller]

On 3/14/07, Simon <simon80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> But on the other hand, if contributors are required to sign and
> _explicitly_ acknowledge that they've read the agreement when sending
> their patches, then by the time they have commit access, they should
> already be aware of the policy, having submitted patches before then.
> The onus is on us to make sure that contributors acknowledge the
> policy, no matter where it is located, so it doesn't add anything to
> put the policy in every file, if contributions are handled properly.
> My apologies if this was beaten to death earlier on the list.

I'm not going to do anything further on it unless more people come to
some conclusion on it different from how they decided before.

>
> > I am undecided on this.  I don't mind people getting credit for their
> > specific contributions.  But if that's not helpful, we shouldn't do
> > it.  The community should come to a decision, and we'll stick by it.
>
> People can still get credit for specific contributions, and I agree
> that they should, but they can get it without putting their names in
> the specific files they contributed to, and there's a record of every
> contribution in the svn repository.
>

All true.  I'm hoping that more people will weigh in on this.  I
really don't want to make a unilateral decision on a strictly
community-oriented issue.

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Timothy Normand Miller
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