[sldev] Good patch practice
Ryan Williams
rdw at lindenlab.com
Thu May 31 16:29:11 PDT 2007
Jason Giglio wrote:
> "Please do not add issue numbers or your name to patches. We have to
> remove these by hand. "
>
> I'm not clear on this part. Do you not want us to name the patch file
> with our name? Or not put our name in comments? I think it's pretty
> important to put our name (or initials or whatever) in comments, so
> people know who to call if they have a question about why that part of
> the code is doing something weird.
>
> Linden Lab devs sign their comments, why would we do something different?
We only do this if there's a hack egregious enough that contacting the
original author will be necessary to figure out why the grid is dead. :-)
So, we shouldn't be doing that, either.
-RYaN
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