Updating the MapServer README...

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at DNR.STATE.MN.US
Fri Feb 1 17:31:39 EST 2008


Adding that standardized header is on my immediate "todo" list. Frank provided instructions
last week (or so)... Most files do have that standard header already if you're wondering what
it looks like.

Steve

>>> On 2/1/2008 at 3:29 PM, in message
<f3b73b7d0802011329n6fedabe7u2596e9a71c2107e6 at mail.gmail.com>, "Tamas Szekeres"
<szekerest at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/2/1, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>:
>> Hi all: I'm trying to spend more time getting us out of OSGeo incubation and 
> am looking at all source files. One thing I noticed
>> in the README is that the Credits section is woefully out of date. There 
> have been so many contributors that the section
>> could get really long and still wouldn't be correct. Any objection to using 
> the source files as means to identify contributors instead
>> and cutting the credits section out of the README? Most source files contain 
> the name of the primary contributors already.
>>
> 
> Steve,
> 
> BTW: Shouldn't we use a standardized header in all of the source files
> of the project? Currently not all of the sources contain a copyright
> notice and the name of the primary contributor.
> Which is the accepted header format?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tamas



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