[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main ChangeLog,1.74,1.75

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Wed Nov 12 12:51:44 CET 2003


Arpi writes:
 > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:44:58 +0100
 > > Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:
 > > 
 > > > But every commiter should update AUTHORS, be it his own patch
 > > > or patch sent by someone else. This file is very outdated, and
 > > > lots of names, things mising :(
 > > 
 > > How is the policy with AUTHORS ?
 > > Shall every patch be mentioned there ?
 > > I guess not ?
 > 
 > IMHO:
 > not every patch, but every important bugfix or new feature.
 > you (if you have cvs write) should be able to decide if it's
 > a few-line trivial/simple/cosmetics fix, or something interesting,
 > be it a most-wanted (or less wanted but good) feature, a fix for
 > a bug we couldnt fix for weeks/months etc.
 > 
 > Also, everyone who contributed patch more than a 3-line cosmetics
 > should be at least mentioned in AUTHORS as contributor.
 > 
 > but it's all imho, feel free to override me...
 > (but note, that (almost) everyone likes to see his name in a
 > program's AUTHORS or contributors-list, if he sent some patches)

I'll add a note to DOCS/tech/patches.txt.  If people would like to be
mentioned there they can add this to the patch.  If they don't we can
assume they do not care...

OK?

Diego



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