I have slightly modified the Andrew Black analyzer for 3.10 image. http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6016
The methods list is therefore different from the previous one provided from another image (I get no feedback when asking from which image it was extracted). Starting from 3.10 may be a wiser choice for future.
From this list there are unknown contributors. As a next step I am proposing to filter out the unknown contributors and the contributors with code size <=25 as the FSF is suggesting.
BTW, where should I look to be able to calculate the number of lines of a given method?
Hilaire
Hello Hilaire,
HF> BTW, where should I look to be able to calculate the number of lines of HF> a given method?
ClassDescription>>linesOfCode should give you a start.
Cheers
Herbert mailto:herbertkoenig@gmx.net
Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
As a next step I am proposing to filter out the unknown contributors and the contributors with code size <=25 as the FSF is suggesting.
I would recommend ensuring that you count lines-per-method based on the standard formatting (so format the method source before counting lines.) Having a consistent standard strengthens your legal position.
--Alan
On 27-Dec-07, at 8:10 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
As a next step I am proposing to filter out the unknown contributors and the contributors with code size <=25 as the FSF is suggesting.
Don't waste your time. The SFLC legal opinion is that 'every bit is sacred'. We need to get every single in-use version and it's preceding versions cleared.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Fractured Idiom:- QUE SERA SERF - Life is feudal
tim Rowledge a écrit :
On 27-Dec-07, at 8:10 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
As a next step I am proposing to filter out the unknown contributors and the contributors with code size <=25 as the FSF is suggesting.
Don't waste your time. The SFLC legal opinion is that 'every bit is sacred'. We need to get every single in-use version and it's preceding versions cleared.
...and it sounds quite undoable. What about these bits modified at Disney, HP? Do you want to wake up the dogs?
It does not sound pragmatics when in the other hand the FSF is considering this bellow 25 lines of code 'safe'. How do fell other people about that?
Hilaire
As a next step I am proposing to filter out the unknown contributors and the contributors with code size <=25 as the FSF is suggesting.
1) The unknown contributors should *not* be filtered.
2) The FSF filters out contributors with code size <= 10-15.
3) It is not a suggestion *from the FSF*. You may say, "as FSF practices suggest".
Anyway, if the SFLC said that even the smallest contribution matters, you should abide to that. On the other hand, you can ask Eben Moglen if there is a case from which the "tiny change" practice was derived, and submit that case to the SFLC. But for now, you should not filter out anyone (especially unknown contributors!), unless of course you wish to concentrate on major contributors first, and tackle minor contributors later.
Paolo
Paolo Bonzini a écrit :
As a next step I am proposing to filter out the unknown contributors and the contributors with code size <=25 as the FSF is suggesting.
The unknown contributors should *not* be filtered.
The FSF filters out contributors with code size <= 10-15.
It is not a suggestion *from the FSF*. You may say, "as FSF
practices suggest".
Anyway, if the SFLC said that even the smallest contribution matters, you should abide to that. On the other hand, you can ask Eben Moglen if there is a case from which the "tiny change" practice was derived, and submit that case to the SFLC. But for now, you should not filter out anyone (especially unknown contributors!), unless of course you wish to concentrate on major contributors first, and tackle minor contributors later.
It is the idea to divide in small chunks the author list to share the workload (contacting authors or/and rewriting methods) with the community. But I am not sure anymore if it will be useful as Tim wrote even the history of the methods should be handled...
Hilaire
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