[vlc-devel] commit: RealVideo codec through DLL loader (Wang Bo )

Pierre d'Herbemont pdherbemont at free.fr
Mon Jun 2 21:04:41 CEST 2008


On Jun 2, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:57:28PM +0200, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote :
>> On Jun 2, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Antoine Cellerier wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>>> Just a small question out-of-the-blue:
>>>> Do we have a policy on AUTHORS file ?
>>>
>>> Not that I know. The last few additions were people with commit
>>> access.
>>> But there's nothing that forbids adding people who don't have commit
>>> access.
>> Every code contributor should be in AUTHORS, as they do own a
>> copyright and an authorship on the code. That also mean an auto
>> generation of that file.
> The question is more: "From what point a patch goes in THANKS, or in
> AUTHORS" ?

IMO, THANKS should be for non-code submission (help and such). AUTHORS  
for code submission.

However this is not what we have been doing, so... What do you think?

Pierre.




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