Re: Author names in source files

On 12/02/2010 10:15 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
>> I found there are some author names in some of source files.
>> Will we keep their names? And, will we add new author names
>> who wrote patches for those files?
>>
>> src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c(15)  : * Author: Andreas Pflug
>> src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c(9)      : * Author: Andreas Pflug
>> src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c(7): *    Author: Edmund Mergl
>> src/backend/utils/adt/txid.c(14)        : *    Author: Jan Wieck, Afilias USA INC.
> When someone writes a file from scratch, we usually keep their name on
> it so we remember the original author.
>


That's probably reasonable for a while. But the code drifts. I certainly 
wouldn't object to my name being removed from initdb.c, after 7 years, 
athough probably half the code or more is still mine.

cheers

andrew