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Re: [PATCH] vfprint: validate nargs and argument-based offsets


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> wrote:
> On 2/2/2012 1:49 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Adding "Contributed by" or "Written by" is entirely up to the author.
>> Some people like to be credited explicitly in more places, while for
>> others the ChangeLog and source control history are more than enough.
>> I don't add them, since it's just another way for randoms to find your
>> name and email address on some code and ask you truly bizarre and
>> unrelated questions a decade later (trust me, you have no idea).
>> (This isn't really relevant for a simple test case that won't change
>> much, but in the general case such lines can be awkward because nobody
>> wants to slight the original author by removing them, but over time
>> the file is likely to be added to or rewritten substantially by
>> someone else, making the credit imprecise at best.)
>
> Interesting! ÂI reluctantly added my "Contributed by" line to all the tile
> and linux-generic files that I submitted because the glibc wiki
> "Contribution checklist" says:

I added that to the contribution checklist because it was what Ulrich
had declared should be done. I can probably find the email in the
archive...

But I'm happy to change it if consensus is there.

Ryan S. Arnold


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