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Re: ChangeLog entries for other people's changes


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: ChangeLog entries for other people's changes
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:16:32 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux)

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:21:35 -0400 Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote: 

GM> The meaning of some recent Gnus Changelog entries:

GM>   From Dave Abrahams <address@hidden>.
GM>   Thanks to Christian von Roques <address@hidden>.

GM> is unclear. If these people are the authors of the changes, then please
GM> just make the ChangeLog entries in their names.
GM> (Some older entries, eg 2006-07-24, 2004-05-20, 2004-05-18, 2004-04-22
GM> seem to have similar issues.)

GM> Also, if these people are the authors of these changes, then neither
GM> seems to have a copyright assignment. Either the changes need to be
GM> maked as "tiny changes", or assignments are needed. (Sounds like in
GM> one case that is a known issue, http://debbugs.gnu.org/9691 .)

I see you fixed the Dave Abrahams entry, thanks.  I marked it as a tiny
change to resolve the ambiguity.  Sorry for the trouble.

Ted




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