Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sh
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@netbsd.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/15/2003 23:28:06
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:40:57AM +0000, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
  | 
  | Module Name:	src
  | Committed By:	itojun
  | Date:		Tue Apr 15 07:40:57 UTC 2003
  | 
  | Modified Files:
  | 	src/bin/sh: options.c
  | 
  | Log Message:
  | %d is 12 chars, not 10 chars.  hinted by deraadt

Hi Itojun.

In the future, could you please use at least the full email address,
if not the name, of where you got the change from.  If it came from
a particular revision of a file from another project, quoting the
project, file & revision (unless you can infer the file, because it's
the same :) can be useful too.

Why do I ask for this?  I see it as a matter of courtesy with
respect to proper attribution, especially given that I would prefer
that I am attributed in this manner in commits made in other projects
(i.e, at least as "lukem@netbsd.org" rather than just "lukem").

I feel that this is important because a person reading the CVS logs
may not be familiar with all the login names of the relevant project,
let alone the login names of other *BSD projects.

So, if you're referring to a NetBSD developer, "foo@" might be OK,
but IMHO, you should definitely use at least "foo@blahbsd.org" when
"blahbsd" != "NetBSD", and possibly even the full name (e.g, "Theo
De Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>" if you want to accredit the person
and the project they're affiliated with)

Thanks,
Luke.
(a.k.a. "lukem@" :-) :-)

(speaking for myself)