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

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed May 9 12:24:27 UTC 2018


On 05/09/2018 01:51 PM, David Kiarie wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 2:29 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:56 PM, John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>>>     > >> Suse copyright notice has been on this file since the day this
>>>>     file got
>>>>     > >> merged. To be honest, I did most of the original work so why
>>>>     should Suse
>>>>     > >> copyright appear here while me doesn't ?
>>>>     > >>
>>>>     > >
>>>>     > > Contrary to the fact that most libvirt developers work for a
>>>>     company, this
>>>>     > > was mostly independent work.
>>>>     > >
>>>>     >
>>>>     > And I totally don't have a problem with Suse copyrighting the file
>>>>     but why
>>>>     > can't I do the same ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sooo... without GSOC and SUSE's support through their employee Jim
>>> Fehlig would you have written that code on your own and tried to have it
>>> included in libvirt? I would think SUSE has a stake in the written code
>>> as their resource(s) were being used. Yes, they benefit from it, but so
>>> did you as you can point to that code as being authored by you.
>>>
>>>
>> I did this project in 2014 - to be honest, at the time, at least, most
>> student were evaluated on merit.
>>
> 
> GSoC is just a totally wasted project since Carols left :-(

I'm not going to get into authorship discussion, enough has been said.
But being org admin for libvirt since 2013 I've been dealing with both
Carol and Stephanie and frankly both of them are awesome and try/tried
their best. At every Mentor summit we have a discussion what went well
and what we can do better. They collect ideas and put them in practice.

And despite your comments I think GSoC has been a great success for
libvirt too. We have students coming back, students who stay after
program ends and contribute afterwards, students whose code is still
used (I just used wireshark dissector the other day).

Michal




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