[geos-devel] Do we still need/are maintaining AUTHORS - All in favor of #3 please vote say eye

[Sandro Santilli]

AUTHORS is part of the GNU Coding Standards for package distribution,
authors.svn is a service thing.

I'm not sure what we need authors.svn for, but I wouldn't drop AUTHORS.

--strk;

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:18:28PM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> On closer inspection, I see there is also an AUTHORS file and it contains
> names of authors as well, which is inconsistent with the names of Authors in
> authors.svn.
> 
> I suggest we either delete authors.svn or AUTHORS unless authors.svn is used
> for something else.
> 
> It would seem AUTHORS is more descriptive than the authors.svn, 
> 
> 1) so my gut sense says -- lets keep AUTHORS and get rid of authors.svn
> 
> But my gut is a bit torn, because my other gut senses say
> 
> 2) But AUTHORS requires me to state what role I have, but how can I know
> what my role is if I haven't done much work.
> 
> 3) Then my other gut sense says -- lets keep AUTHORS and chuck authors.svn,
> because 
> If I don't know what areas I work in I probably shouldn't be given developer
> rights anyway and should just be allowed to contribute patches.
> 
> Therefore I shall go with gut sense #3.
> 
> All in favor say I for gut sense #3.