Re: [libvirt] [dbus PATCH 1/4] maint: remove AUTHORS from repository

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 05:11:06PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 02:56:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > > > This is tracked by git itself. Suggested during fedora package review. > > > > AUTHORS is a file that autoconf/automake expects to exist in all > > projects. Also the git history is not included with the tar.gz > > That is true only if the project decides to follow GNU standard, it > requires ChangeLog file which is not present. > > dist, so IMHO the AUTHORS is appropriate to keep regardless. > > That is correct, however, if someone really wants to know who > contributed into the project and what was the contribution the AUTHORS > file will not provide you all these information and you will have to > look into the git repository. If the git repository still exists, and is accessible, when you want to look for it. Sadly there are many projects with no git repo anymore after services like gitorious.org and code.google.com shutdown. Not that I'm suggesting libvirt.org is going away any time soon, but no one can predict 10+ years into the future. IMHO, giving authors credit in the distributed release tarballs is important, even if git or any other repo exists.