The unending story of cdrtools

Posted Aug 17, 2009 20:26 UTC (Mon) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: The unending story of cdrtools by jengelh
Parent article: The unending story of cdrtools

> Well the point of is that the source files carry notice of who screwed
> around last with the source — it is, IMO, a logical step in ensuring
> that the original author does not get the blame for bugs.

Does it necessarily need to be in the source code? Isn't a public version
control system and a pointer to that enough? Then one can see in most
detailed way each change and who did it...

The unending story of cdrtools

Posted Aug 18, 2009 9:30 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

But that information would be lost on git-archive and similar.

The unending story of cdrtools

Posted Aug 19, 2009 0:28 UTC (Wed) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

Many projects auto-generate their ChangeLog file before creating archives of releases -- that ought to do nicely.