[libvirt] [PATCH] xenconfig: Remove references to my name and email

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 05:55:51PM +0300, David Kiarie wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 12:17:05 +0300, David Kiarie wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 12:15 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Replace references to my name and email with a pseudonym
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sorry, I just want my real name and email off these files and I keep
> > making
> > > silly mistakes.
> >
> > How about just deleting them? We don't really support using pseudonyms.
> >
> 
> Why is that ? With a person reason I don't want my name of these files. I
> wrote the files and it took me a lot of work.
> 
> I can still prove I wrote this code with the above email if anyone wants me
> to as I still work as a developer.

FWIW, the Author lines are largely irrelevant when looking at who authored
code, they are at best incomplete, and at worst outright misleading, so we
tend to recommend people not to pay attention to them. The GIT history
contains the true accurate authorship information and your name is still
recorded there, so the fact that you did the work would not be lost even
without the Author line present. 

If anything I would suggst we could bulk remove them from all code since
because of their incomplete & misleading nature, but that's a larger
can of worms.

Regards,
Daniel
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