[libvirt] [dbus PATCH 1/4] maint: remove AUTHORS from repository

[Pavel Hrdina]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 04:22:02PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 05:11:06PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 02:56:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> > > > This is tracked by git itself.  Suggested during fedora package review.
> > > 
> > > AUTHORS is a file that autoconf/automake expects to exist in all
> > > projects. Also the git history is not included with the tar.gz
> > 
> > That is true only if the project decides to follow GNU standard, it
> > requires ChangeLog file which is not present.
> 
> 
> > > dist, so IMHO the AUTHORS is appropriate to keep regardless.
> > 
> > That is correct, however, if someone really wants to know who
> > contributed into the project and what was the contribution the AUTHORS
> > file will not provide you all these information and you will have to
> > look into the git repository.
> 
> If the git repository still exists, and is accessible, when you want to
> look for it. Sadly there are many projects with no git repo anymore after
> services like gitorious.org and code.google.com shutdown. Not that I'm
> suggesting libvirt.org is going away any time soon, but no one can predict
> 10+ years into the future. IMHO, giving authors credit in the distributed
> release tarballs is important, even if git or any other repo exists.

OK, I can agree with this argument :).  I'll drop this patch.

Thanks,
Pavel
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