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

[David Kiarie]

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Aiming to be an independent developer and already working on that (I am
actually not formally employed at the moment), this would definitely be a
huge part of my portifolio and I did actually do quite a bit of work on the
code on those files.

I'm not sure what to do either so I just sent both patches.


> 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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