[Kde-scm-interest] accountability

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 12:58:15 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > No. In SVN, if you commit, you're the author.
> 
> And in Git, if you merge someone else's code, you're the "author" too.
> 
> Yes, their name and email address (which could be fake) show up in the
> history -- but ultimately the developer making the merge is taking
> responsibility for the code.
> 
> This isn't any different than with SVN, where a developer commits a
> patch and credits a name and email address, both of which may be
> fakes/temporary.
> 
> From a policy/accountability perspective I don't see how this is really
> different from SVN.
> 

Precisely what I meant.
There's no difference here between the two systems as far as accountability is 
concerned. I don't always commit my code, but sometimes I commit code from 
someone else that mailed me a patch. People like this will always exist.

Now, the problem is not who appears in history, but more about who published 
what, be it in good or evil faith. This is the author in SVN, or the specific 
entry of a log of who pushed what commit in gitorious.

Bye,
-Riccardo