Am Montag, den 08.03.2010, 12:15 -0800 schrieb Can Koy:
well, who the hell are you?
Can, Thomas is contributing to the Geany project for a very long time. As developer as well as a tester. I do not see any reason to ask such questions here. Especially not in that caustically way.
Actually, I'm very uncomfortable with my name being
recorded in that patch's log (r4729). That regex is funny, it exhibits an ignorance in the subject and it's not what I submitted. So, I demand my name removed from the logs for that patch.
Maybe it could be, Enrico modified some things on your patch before he commited it, I don't know. If this is the case, he maybe forgot to write the commit message as "based on patch from ..." as he usually does. Well, that could happen to anyone, we're all just humans. So, thanks very much for your understanding.
Anyway, Enrico has every right to modify code before applying it onto Geany. As you may have noticed he is one of the main authors of Geany and initiated the project. He still is one of the last ones who decide if code makes it into Geany or not. Geany is Free Software under GPL and any contribution should be too. Thus I see no reason why patches may not be modified before applying them to the project. If the modification is an improvement or not is a technical question which I am not asking for at present. We're open to discuss any technical issue. :)
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Then please submit a patch to the subversion project to enable post-editing of commit messages, since this is not possible currently.
But honestly, I don't see why this is a big deal. Maybe we can concentrate on improving Geany and not insisting on minor things like this.
The fact that your name is mentioned in the commit message can not be undone due to the technical reasons Thomas wrote. I'm afraid you will have to live with that. Please keep in mind that Free Software projects are not mainly intended to make someones name public or not. Such projects are intended to provide good software for the user. - Thus a lot of your patches we're very appreciated. - In most Free Software projects it is the case, that the developers actually are people who have very long working days and do their efforts for the projects in their free time after work. This actually is also the case for the Geany project. I think, a bit of understanding from your side would be appreciated by anyone here. Mistakes can happen to anyone.
Regards, Dominic