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Re: Proper attribution of patches


Thomas Dickey wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:


XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by
committing them without proper attribution.


your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than
offering commit access to someone who solved a problem that (according
to the email thread) that had stopped you for some _months_ indicates
that your whole aim on this is to get credit for yourself.

You must be right, you're always right. Take a look at the bug I filed months ago:


http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804

=======================================================================
Patch will be attached shortly. Only effects Cygwin. Build tested, run-time
tested. Change log entry:


Enable shared build of Xt, Xaw, Xaw6, and Xmu libraries on Cygwin (Ralf Habacker).
=======================================================================


Oops, looks like I was not trying to steal credit on that one.

Lets see, that makes three places where I gave proper credit for the patch and thanked Ralf for fixing it: 1) The Cygwin/X mailing list, 2) The change log for the updated packages, and 3) Bug 804 on bugs.xfree86.org.

At last count, the number of places where you gave proper credit was: 0.

The policy of the xoncygwin tree on SourceForge was that anyone that wanted access could have it; Ralf didn't want it since he was busy working on porting KDE to Cygwin/X. Lets get back to the topic at hand: your blatant attempt to steal credit and refusal to acknowledge that you did so.

I noted that the comment in the code was properly attributed, no further
action was needed.

No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit.


Harold


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