Thanks

[elaine]

Zbiggy, ok a few thoughts on your requests/comments

Take this as a personal veiw, I'm not an active dev and haven't 
been in more than a year.

First, it is questionable whether modules even qualify as copyrighted
works. Copyright specifically excludes 'listings of ingredients or 
contents'. That is a pretty good description of most modules.

(And where it isn't a good description, i.e. where significant /bin/sh
logic/scripting is implemented in a module I would consider that to
be a failing either on the part of the lunar core design or of the
source authors -- bash scripting inside modules should be the exception
and usually results in hard-to-maintain modules.)

Second 'MAINTAINER's come and go. Where we have maintainers recorded in 
the modules at all, often (mostly?) they are out of date and therefore
not very useful.

Now, to give credit where credit is due is a good thing, however if 
you assert that a software team has a responsibility to credit your
authorshio, perhaps you should think about what this entails ... not
all contributors have the same wishes, do you really want the team
spending it's time on this?

I would argue that by default stripping the MAINTAINER field of 
contributors is the correct procedure, handling all contributors'
different desires, let alone the tendency of people to come and go
simply seems to be more work than it's worth.


If you really want credit for your modules, why not simply add your
email to the 'LONGDESC' field of the module DETAILS file?


elaine

On Sun, 22 May 2005 00:57:12 +0200 
Zbigniew _uszpi_ski <zbiggy at o2.pl> did inscribe thusly:

> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for importing 2 (of 7 sent by me) modules to lunar in May. Thanks also 
> for importing the -freorder-blocks patch I sent earlier. I would be very 
> grateful if you stop removing my name and/or e-mail address from pieces of 
> work I send.
> 
> The name of the author and his e-mail address is very important part of source 
> code or modules. It allows users to contact directly author if they have some 
> questions or bug reports. Thanks to this forums or bugreports are not junked 
> and other people are not bothered. The reaction is also faster because the 
> e-mails are read more often than forum messages.
> 
> Everything I do for lunar is made in free time as a kind of hobby. I only have 
> satisfaction, nothing more. Making my work anonymous you are simply 
> demotivating me and make me sad.
> 
> Please remember about copyrights. If something is free in using/copying etc. 
> does not mean that nobody make it.
> 
> I can not understand why removing author's address or name, e.g. the 
> maintainer address in modules is to help development, it should not be 
> removed - this is not obstacle. I can not understand why it takes so long 
> importing new modules to moonbase. Everything I sent was complete and 
> working, posted in form expected by developers.
> 
> I see that many modules in lunar are made by anonymous people. I browse 
> Internet looking for updates and could drop a mail to maintainer if I have 
> known maintainer's e-mail address usually displayed by lvu maintainer 
> <module> command.
> 
> Please do not flame this post. I try to improve things which look wrong in my 
> opinion. If there is special reason for anonymizing lunar tell me because now 
> I have no idea.
> 
> greetings,
> zbiggy