[Zope-dev] [Checkins] SVN: zope.app.folder/trunk/ Conform to repository policy

[Zvezdan Petkovic]

On Nov 29, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:

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> On 11/29/2011 11:48 AM, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zvezdan Petkovic
>> <zvezdan at zope.com> Date: 2011/2/2 Subject: Re: [Checkins] SVN:
>> zope.app.folder/trunk/ Conform to repository policy To: Gediminas
>> Paulauskas <menesis at pov.lt>
>> 
>> 
>> I noticed your checkins similar to this:
>> 
>> On Dec 28, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
>> 
>>> Log message for revision 119203: Conform to repository policy ... 
>>> Modified: zope.app.folder/trunk/setup.py 
>>> =================================================================== 
>>> --- zope.app.folder/trunk/setup.py    2010-12-28 17:10:33 UTC (rev
>>> 119202) +++ zope.app.folder/trunk/setup.py    2010-12-28 19:12:47
>>> UTC (rev 119203) @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 
>>> ##############################################################################
>>> 
>>> 
> #
>>> -# Copyright (c) 2006 Zope Corporation and Contributors. +#
>>> Copyright (c) 2006 Zope Foundation and Contributors.
>> 
>> 
>> This is right.  The copyright holder is the Foundation now.
>> 
>> 
>>> # All Rights Reserved. # # This software is subject to the
>>> provisions of the Zope Public License, @@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ def
>>> read(*rnames): return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
>>> *rnames)).read()
>>> 
>>> -version = '3.5.2 dev' +version = '3.5.2dev'
>>> 
>>> setup(name='zope.app.folder', version=version, -      author='Zope
>>> Corporation and Contributors', +      author='Zope Foundation and
>>> Contributors',
>> 
>> 
>> This is NOT right. This code was written in Zope Corporation and that
>> does not change with the transfer of the copyright. The author is not
>> equal to the copyright holder.
>> 
>> Please read this thread here and Christian Theune admission that he 
>> was wrong about checking for author in his conformance scripts.
>> 
>> https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2010-May/040514.html
>> 
>> So, can we please stop changing authors.
> 
> For the package in question here ('zope.app.folder'), ZC is in *now* way an author:  'svn log' says that the majority of people who ever checked into the package was not ZC employees at any point.  That change was from one piece of boilerplate (used when ZC was the copyright holder) to another piece (after the transfer).  For such a collectively-originated work, the ZF is a much better placeholder than ZC:  it exists to represent the collective interests of the Zope development community.


Read the whole message, please.  It starts with:

	"I noticed your checkins similar to this:"

It's not just this one package that was in question.

The link above leads to a thread that shows that author change was wrongly enforced.  As a result, many packages had author changed to ZF even when not needed.

So, can we please stop changing authors.

	Zvezdan


P.S.  Just for the record:

	Gediminas asked at the time should he revert the change above
   	and I said: NO.