On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 04:22:02PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 05:11:06PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 02:56:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > > > > This is tracked by git itself. Suggested during fedora package review. > > > > > > AUTHORS is a file that autoconf/automake expects to exist in all > > > projects. Also the git history is not included with the tar.gz > > > > That is true only if the project decides to follow GNU standard, it > > requires ChangeLog file which is not present. > > > > > dist, so IMHO the AUTHORS is appropriate to keep regardless. > > > > That is correct, however, if someone really wants to know who > > contributed into the project and what was the contribution the AUTHORS > > file will not provide you all these information and you will have to > > look into the git repository. > > If the git repository still exists, and is accessible, when you want to > look for it. Sadly there are many projects with no git repo anymore after > services like gitorious.org and code.google.com shutdown. Not that I'm > suggesting libvirt.org is going away any time soon, but no one can predict > 10+ years into the future. IMHO, giving authors credit in the distributed > release tarballs is important, even if git or any other repo exists. OK, I can agree with this argument :). I'll drop this patch. Thanks, Pavel
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