Committers: crediting commits

[mark]

Just like we attribute each commit to the person who submitted it, if it's a codemerge from LJ or some other site, it is required that we annotate that in the commit.

"Patch from LiveJournal."

That sort of thing. Please remember to do this, and if you haven't done it anywhere, it'd be great if you could go back and edit the changelog posts to include this note.

Thanks!

Comments

[mark]

If someone puts together a patch that's a codemerge, we shouldn't be saying "patch by so-and-so" since they didn't author the code. If you really want, you could say something like,

"Patch originally from LiveJournal, packaged for Dreamwidth by denise."

That way it's clear that it was from one place and someone else just did the work to make it fit into DW. Make sense?

[afuna]

Lots, thanks!