From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GITcX-0003eb-EV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:12:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7UHCAqZ006196; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:12:10 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7UHAFHk004147 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:10:15 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73DF647CC for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22171-07-3 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:09:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340D564764 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GITZM-0006n5-Bo for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:09:40 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:09:40 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:09:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 39 compliance Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:09:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <44F58401.1030104@gentoo.org> <200608301554.14216.kugelfang@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-209.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: pan 0.110 (Beable Beable) Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.56 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.039, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.56 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 1c154b62-8878-4ddf-8055-875b776a148f X-Archives-Hash: fdddfde25f0ec61fe90f37318da60dea Danny van Dyk posted 200608301554.14216.kugelfang@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:54:14 +0200: > Am Mittwoch, 30. August 2006 14:26 schrieb Alec Warner: > >> Eselect, your project pages lists retired developers (Ciaran).[4] > Ciaran is the original Author, and he still helps more than ocassionally > with problems and bugs. I won't remove him from that page. > > As precedences, the Gentoo Handbook list of authors contains former > Gentoo devs. Shouldn't he be listed as author, then, not as dev? As original author, he arguably deserves top billing, so don't take that away from him, but a box listing him as original author (and perhaps continuing contributor or the like), with the current devs in a separate box below, would both maintain credit where credit is due and eliminate confusion. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list