I'd rather we all had accounts too I think. Sometimes I'm not clear on what came from who by initials alone. It's nice to see what different people are working on.<div><br></div><div>+1<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 31.03.2010, at 23:45, Ken Causey wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 22:52 +0200, Frank Shearar wrote:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> I'm not entirely sure how to contribute to the inbox. Well, I know<br>
>> enough to commit a change to the inbox :) I mean the social process<br>
>> aspect of things. So anyway, feel free to correct me on etiquette and<br>
>> protocol.<br>
><br>
> I have nothing to correct really, but I thought I would comment on the<br>
> etiquette since you brought it up. I may be overlooking something but<br>
> the only things I would suggest for inbox committers is:<br>
><br>
> 1. Update completely to current trunk before submitting to the inbox.<br>
> This ensure that your submission's ancestor will be the most recent<br>
> version in the trunk and is about the best you can do to make it easier<br>
> on core developers to merge your changes.<br>
><br>
> 2. Write a good comment. Try to keep it terse but touch on the main<br>
> points and if there is a Mantis issue, note the relevant issue<br>
> number(s).<br>
><br>
> 3. Another I've thought of which is purely optional but I think we<br>
> should consider strongly suggesting is that you create an account at<br>
> <a href="http://source.squeak.org" target="_blank">source.squeak.org</a> and login before committing. Certainly the repository<br>
> is world-writable but submitting it with your account helps to ensure<br>
> proper attribution and also gives us a point to ensure that submitters<br>
> have agreed to the MIT licensing.<br>
><br>
> Truthfully I would advocate requiring signing in, but this would require<br>
> changes to SqueakSource to enforce I believe and may be considered an<br>
> unnecessary hurdle.<br>
><br>
> That's all I can think of at the moment anyway,<br>
><br>
> Ken<br>
<br>
</div></div>I've been thinking about your third point too. The change necessary to the source server would not be too hard I think. But identifying uploaders would be helpful IMHO. It's also good for bragging, since only if you are logged in are commits counted for you :)<br>
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Does anyone think it would be too much of a burden to create an account?<br>
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