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

Oneko kawaiii.nekomata at gmail.com
Wed May 9 14:27:42 UTC 2018


On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
wrote:

> 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


What SUSE resource ?


> .
> >>>
> >>>
> >> 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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