[virt-tools-list] [virt-manager][PATCH 3/3] Update man page author section.

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Jul 10 21:50:57 UTC 2013


On 07/10/2013 03:56 PM, Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia wrote:
> On 07/10/2013 02:03 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Thanks, I pushed the first two. But see below.
>>
>> On 07/10/2013 12:14 PM, Leonardo Garcia wrote:
>>> From: Leonardo Garcia <lagarcia at br.ibm.com>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>   man/virt-manager.pod |    2 +-
>>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/man/virt-manager.pod b/man/virt-manager.pod
>>> index f8e4d4b..a33955e 100644
>>> --- a/man/virt-manager.pod
>>> +++ b/man/virt-manager.pod
>>> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Standard GTK options like --g-fatal-warnings are also
>>> accepted.
>>>     =head1 AUTHOR
>>>   -Written by Daniel P. Berrange and Cole Robinson.
>>> +Written by Daniel P. Berrange, Cole Robinson, and Leonardo Garcia.
>>>     =head1 BUGS
>>>   
>> I always took this to mean 'virt-manager authors' and not specifically 'man
>> page authors', but it appears there's examples of both in the wild. It's tough
>> to do lists like this without overlooking someone or creating maintenance
>> burden. My recommendation for this in order is:
> Hehe, I always thought that patches including the patch's author name in an
> AUTHOR section or in an AUTHORS file were a little bit petulant. :)
> 
> Sorry that I could not resist this time. In fact, I agree with you that the
> AUTHOR section should mean 'virt-manager authors'. In this case I got a little
> bit confused because looking in the man page change history, I could only find
> you and Daniel making changes on the file, while we have many others
> contributing to virt-manager. However, to be very honest here, you both have
> done the majority of the work in virt-manager and, because of that, deserve to
> have your names listed in the AUTHOR section.
> 
> That said, I think we can just stay where we are. :)
> 

I just went ahead and dropped all AUTHORS sections in the man pages.

- Cole




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