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Re: [PATCH] Clean up 'THANKS' and 'AUTHORS'.


From: Cyril Roelandt
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up 'THANKS' and 'AUTHORS'.
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 22:02:11 +0200
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On 06/29/2015 09:35 PM, John Darrington wrote:
> The measure of contribution of any one individual cannot be determined by
> any parametric algorithm.  
> 

Right.

> Attempting to generate such a list might lead to people makeing trivial or
> frivolous contributions in order to get their name in the list.

Well, I don't think that will happen, or that it would be such an issue
:) Still, it feels nice to have your name included in THANKS/AUTHORS
because someone actually thought "damn, this developer does a lot of
work, how is their name not in AUTHORS ?". Having a make target adding
it is a bit "meh", imho.

Cyril.



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