On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:39:38PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:39:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I list the submitter when they have provided a patch, so as to provide for > > attribution, and therefore credit or blame, as appropriate. > > And also, I suppose, if the submitter did a good job of tracking down the > bug and saved me time, and deserved credit for that. Yup. Both of those scenarios are exactly how I have been using my "thanks" messages in the XFree86 changelogs for years. -- G. Branden Robinson | Religion is regarded by the common Debian GNU/Linux | people as true, by the wise as branden@debian.org | false, and by the rulers as useful. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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