Re: Teams in changelog trailers

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

Hi.

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Now that we have a concept of a “team upload”[0], I'd like to have
> putting team's name in the changelog trailer officially deprecated.
> 
> This would:
> 1) allow to always identify person responsible for a particular upload;

To be very pedantic, the signature on the last upload should reveal
this, right?

> 2) help to avoid situations where (inadvertently) no human name is
> mentioned in a changelog entry at all.
> 
> What do others think?

One problem arises if the last person who "made" the upload (in case
it was sponsored) does not put his/her name. I just wish to know what
other situations where having just team uploads makes life harder.

Thanks.

Kumar
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Footnotes are for things you believe don't really belong in LDP manuals,
but want to include anyway.
		-- Joel N. Weber II discussing the 'make' chapter of LPG