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Re: [tracecompass-dev] Removing contributor list from copyright header

No of course, no hurry to remove all existing contributor lists. All I'm suggesting is that we start removing them iteratively, as we update copyright headers for example.


On 2015-07-30 09:32 AM, Matthew Khouzam wrote:
So to be clear, there will NOT be a patch removing everyone's name at
once (that would make a lot of noise).

But we will stop writing our names. This sounds like less work, I'm all
for it!

On 15-07-30 07:01 AM, Bernd Hufmann wrote:
Hi Alex

thanks for letting us know about the discussions and decision. I'm ok
to not update the contributor list anymore and, for new files, not
include it. About removing the contributor list from existing files
actively, I'm not sure. I'd like to hear the other Trace Compass
committers' opinion about it before going ahead with it. Let's give
them a chance to put their comment on this email thread.

/Bernd

On 07/28/2015 07:21 PM, Alexandre Montplaisir wrote:
Hi all,

As discussed in bug 435933 [1], it is no longer necessary to list
individual contributors in the source files's copyright headers.
Eclipse IP checks now use the git log to track contributions, so this
list is now effectively useless. The same information is available
with "git shortlog" and similar commands. It also increases patch
noise and can cause unwanted merge conflicts.

CDT now recommends to not update this list anymore [2].

What do you say we drop the contributor lists altogether? Maybe not
actively remove it from everywhere right now, but as we modify files
we can take the opportunity to remove it, and new files could come
with no list at all?

Cheers,
Alex


[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=435933
[2] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cdt-dev/msg29374.html
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