svn commit: r392666 - head/audio/libgroove

[John Marino]

On 7/22/2015 3:43 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--On 22 juillet 2015 15:35:08 +0200 John Marino
> <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:
> | I knew that's what you meant, and that's what I'm talking about.  The
> | expanded name is the defacto standard and this was hammered into me
> | during mentering.  You're going out of your way to go against this
> | without explaining why, so I'm curious as to why.  Danfe just didn't
> | make this up.
> 
> The documentation says:
> 
>         If this line is present, future maintainers must
>         not change or remove it except at the original author's request.
> 
> So, I am wondering, what part of that sentence do all of you not get ?  Is
> the "MUST NOT CHANGE OR REMOVE" not clear ?  Of course, il only talks about
> future maintainers, I assume that committers understand that it applies to
> them even if they're not the maintainer.
> 

The intent is not clear.  I assumed that "no change" was trying to
ensure credit was not lost.  However, if the original email address was
gone, or some kind of nickname is used, I would have assumed that is
modifiable.

Nothing is magic about this line; it's not even mandatory.  So if you
are clarifying it is immutatable, then I'd like the reason documented
because it now escapes me.  I was given the benefit of the doubt over
the literal meaning.  The literal I don't think is good.

So now please explain why it can't be changed if credit is maintained?

John