[LLVMdev] this file was developed by ...

[Ted Kremenek]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

> Per the developer policy, the LLVM file header is:
>
> // This file was developed by RANDOM NAME HERE and is distributed  
> under
> // the University of Illinois Open Source License. See LICENSE.TXT for
> // details.
>
> The continuing obvious problem is that this name is generally  
> meaningless
> as time goes on.  People leave the project, code gets replaced, and
> 'ownership' changes.  The current policy is that the person who  
> creates
> the file touches it.
>
> Does anyone have a problem with changing this to:
>
> // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open  
> Source
> // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
>
> And leaving this whole business to our friendly version control system
> (e.g. svn annotate), which has the perfect answer all the time?

This sounds fine to me.  As long as people keep themselves registered  
in CREDITS.txt the lookup from svn annotate to an email address is not  
that painful.