Re: FYI: "Wording:" changelog convention
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> README.md says that "Wording:" is for the author of a change. However,
> I believe that the intention of the field is not to give credit to the
> author of a patch, but to indicate who sought seconds for the patch. So
> I've replaced "author" with "proposer" in README.md.
> Please let me know if I've misunderstood "Wording:"'s purpose.
I usually try to credit the person who wrote the bulk of the wording, even
if someone else asked for seconds. I think of it as more of a credit
thing than a process thing. But this is just my interpretation of
something Manoj started a long time ago, so open to standardizing whatever
makes sense. (I do think it would be good to mention the primary authors
in the changelog, though, just as a general open source credit thing.)
Hope the sprint is going well! I should be on IRC to join in starting
sometime tomorrow.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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