[Kde-scm-interest] Accountability, concrete suggestion

[Stephen Kelly]

Thomas Zander wrote:
> The issue;
> In team efforts having a known-to-be-correct manner of linking
> contributions
> to persons is essential for various reasons.  It keeps people honest and
> it allows easier communication if you spot a bug in some commit.

Looks like a well thought out proposal.

It seems strange that this isn't a solved problem. How does the linux
kernel, or firefox (using Hg I believe) or any other big project using a
DVCS handle accountability? One of the big selling points of DVCS is being
able to have a few developers commit to a project at a local sprint, and
push it later. Is it something specific to the structure of KDE that makes
this an issue? We want to know the creater of every commit, but that's not
something other projects are so concerned with, is it?