[libvirt] [PATCH] xenconfig: Remove references to my name and email

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Mon May 7 23:11:27 UTC 2018


On 05/07/2018 08:57 AM, David Kiarie wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:55 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:davidkiarie4 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com
>     <mailto:pkrempa at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>         On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 12:17:05 +0300, David Kiarie wrote:
>         > On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 12:15 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com <mailto:davidkiarie4 at gmail.com>>
>         > wrote:
>         > 
>         > > Replace references to my name and email with a pseudonym
>         > >
>         > 
>         > Sorry, I just want my real name and email off these files and I keep making
>         > silly mistakes.
> 
>         How about just deleting them? We don't really support using pseudonyms.
> 
> 
>     Why is that ? With a person reason I don't want my name of these files. I
>     wrote the files and it took me a lot of work.
> 
>     I can still prove I wrote this code with the above email if anyone wants me
>     to as I still work as a developer.
> 
> 
> I initally requested to have my name removed from the files but apparently I 
> hadn't signed off the patch so it was rejected.

You could have simply replied to the mail requesting a SOB and one of us would 
have added it your patch and pushed it.

> One month later, I figured it might be a bad idea to just give up all the work I 
> had done and opted to keep track of it.

I think that is a wise choice, in which case you should leave the authorship as 
is :-).

Regards,
Jim




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