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

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:42:27PM +0300, David Kiarie wrote:
> 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.

BTW, I meant to include a link in the previous message - this shows how
to get a report of all your contributions:

  https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=search;s=davidkiarie4@gmail.com;st=author

Regards,
Daniel
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