Re:Please re-add original author to docs and license
by chmod775 on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:26AM
(#22524526)
The first commit on github is a 77k lines commit that appears to be a migration of the project from svn to git. So you're looking only at later commit history.
The original project lived here: https://sourceforge.net/p/guake-gnome-vte/code/commit_browse...
He explained that and linked to that in his his issue though.
Edit: Linking to the full commit history instead.
Re:Please re-add original author to docs and license
by mikekchar on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:46AM
(#22524615)
My bad! Indeed, he does seem to be the original Author. Thanks for pointing me to the correct spot! I'm not sure how I missed that.
Re:Please re-add original author to docs and license
by bluesign on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:51AM
(#22524934)
yeah they switched to pbr, so AUTHORS file is generated on build. Not tracked on git
PS: actually original author is in AUTHORS file
Re:Please re-add original author to docs and license
by JdeBP on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @07:16AM
(#22534465)
Twice, according to https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1703#issuecomment-5965... .
In his own branch, the first commit is October 2007 and the vast majority of commits after that are from Lincoln de Sousa. So I don't think anyone was doing anything untoward here. I'm not really familiar with the project, but it doesn't appear to me that he was ever the original author. If anything, it appears as though Lincoln de Sousa did most of the heavy lifting and he was a regular contributor. I could easily be wrong, but that's my impression.
Still, acknowledgement as being an original contributor in the README seems completely reasonable and the issue has 14 thumbs up.