Yes, I guess I didn't realize we had overwritten initials because I
remember doing the FixUnderscores improvement myself to preserve the
initials.  Wait..

(CompiledMethod allInstances collect: [ : e | e timeStamp ] as: Bag)
sortedCounts first: 10

Dang.  So, yeah, it looks like quite a few method's original
authorship information got trampled.  Unfortunately, the 'mc history'
function can only show what was actually _loaded_ into that DB.  IOW,
we have to have the .mcz's for the versions that were BEFORE 2/4/2006
20:41.  The oldest one we have in trunk is

Name: Sound-md.6
Author: md
Time: 21 April 2006, 5:05:36 pm
UUID: 498cd464-d148-11da-a5e8-000d933a223c
Ancestors: Sound-md.5

which carries the same version of that method.

But at least we can identify the worst-offending methods (the list
above), so that maybe they could be extracted from an old image or
maybe Bob's history thing??


On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:20 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 12:23:09PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On 05.12.2014, at 04:11, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > (Stephane added explicitly since the code has his initials)
>>
>> We can't rely on the initials unfortunately - this is from when we converted underscore assignments to colon-equals, which originally did not preserve initials.
>>
>> It would actually be a very useful project for someone to fix this: write a snippet that goes through every method, compares it to its previous version (using Chris's MC history thingy for example), and if the only change is that ':=' replaced '_' then restore the previous time stamp.
>>
>> - Bert -
>
>
> This is a really good idea, so I am replying with a new subject line in
> hopes of encouraging follow up.
>
> Dave
>
>