[Python-Dev] Mercurial? (original) (raw)

Daniel (ajax) Diniz ajaksu at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 20:25:53 CEST 2009

Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:

One of the nicer features of Mercurial/DVCSs, in my experience, is that non-committers get to keep the credit on their patches. That means that it's impossible to enforce a policy more extensive than some basic checks (such as the format above). Unless we keep a list of people who have signed an agreement, which will mean people will have to re-do the username on commits that don't constitute a non-trivial contribution.

Maybe it'd be better to first replicate the current workflow, shortcomings and all, then later discuss a new policy? That would mean no credits for non-commiters should come from the VCS alone: those come from commit messages, the ACKS file, copyright notices in source, etc.

BTW, keep in mind some people will prefer to submit diff-generated, non-hg patches. IMO, this use case should be supported before the rich-patch one.

Regards, Daniel

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