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Naming the originator in new testcases
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, nathan at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:48:55 -0500
- Subject: Naming the originator in new testcases
Just as a reminder to those who check in new testcases --
Gerald asked me to write this mail about something where we both have felt
misrepresented in the past: when a PR is fixed, it should go with a testcase,
but on numerous occasions the header of the testcase that went in for our PRs
only said something like
// Contributed by X Y
where X Y is the name of the one who fixed it. While we both believe that it
is fine if this name appears here, we think it is not ok if the name of the
one who provided or reduced the testcase is omitted. (Remember that reducing
testcases can well take an hour, so in many cases is certainly not a
negligible task compared to fixing a bug.)
In fact, as Gerald noticed, codingconventions.html says
Where appropriate, testsuite entries should include comments giving their
origin: the people who added them or submitted the bug report they relate
to, possibly with a reference to a PR in our bug tracking system.
It would be nice if we could keep to this policy.
Thanks
Wolfgang
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