Re: Credits for imported files

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>,
>     [email protected],
>     [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 22:56:13 +0900
> 
> Uwe Brauer writes:
>  > >> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>  >    >> May I suggest to add it right there and not bury it in some
>  >    >> ChangeLog files?  That would avoid these sort of misunderstandings.
>  > 
>  >    > This file does have the attribution inside it.  However, in many other
>  >    > cases, certainly when only a few functions are copied, the credits are
>  >    > only in the ChangeLogs.  My suggestion was to also grep those in order
>  >    > to find the original contributor(s).
> 
> This is too much effort to ask of somebody else -- a person who thinks
> it should be done, should do it themselves.  If it's fairly easy to
> find a main author, I agree, that's worth adding to the file itself

I was only talking about importing whole files or functions or major
features (which are groups of newly introduced functions).  For these,
grepping the ChangeLog files for the earliest entry is usually enough.

> (despite the typical Emacs practice -- Emacs has a separate file,
> AUTHORS IIRC, for attributing contributions).

AUTHORS in GNU Emacs is a derived file: it is produced by scanning
ChangeLogs and an auxiliary database in authors.el.  So the
information in that file is really stored elsewhere.

Thanks.