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Well, as far as I can tell, the Authors file was removed completely. In all of the files that I could find that are old enough for him to have contributed to,
by mikekchar 7y ago
Well, as far as I can tell, the Authors file was removed completely. In all of the files that I could find that are old enough for him to have contributed to, his copyright notice remains.
In his own branch, the first commit is October 2007 and the vast majority of commits after that are from Lincoln de Sousa. So I don't think anyone was doing anything untoward here. I'm not really familiar with the project, but it doesn't appear to me that he was ever the original author. If anything, it appears as though Lincoln de Sousa did most of the heavy lifting and he was a regular contributor. I could easily be wrong, but that's my impression.
Still, acknowledgement as being an original contributor in the README seems completely reasonable and the issue has 14 thumbs up.
- chmod775 7y agoThe first commit on github is a 77k lines commit that appears to be a migration of the project from svn to git. So you're looking only at later commit history. The original project lived here: https://sourceforge.net/p/guake-gnome-vte/code/commit_browser https://sourceforge.net/p/guake-gnome-vte/code/commit_browse... He explained that and linked to that in his his issue though. Edit: Linking to the full commit history instead.
- mikekchar 7y agoMy bad! Indeed, he does seem to be the original Author. Thanks for pointing me to the correct spot! I'm not sure how I missed that.
- bluesign 7y agoyeah they switched to pbr, so AUTHORS file is generated on build. Not tracked on git PS: actually original author is in AUTHORS file
- JdeBP 7y agoTwice, according to https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1703#issuecomment-596500947 https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1703#issuecomment-5965... .
- gsemet 7y agoThe AUTHORS files is generated from the git history, done by PBR.