Hi Austin, On 2014-10-30 at 21:55:14 +0100, Austin Seipp wrote: [...]
Can we get a standardized copyright/comment header across all our files? It seems as if every single file in the compiler (and RTS) has different header text, mentioning different people or groups, some from 10 years ago or more and others just recently added. This is somewhat related to this RFC but also somewhat not, I feel. [...]
Could you draft up a standard-header as a suggestion somewhere, maybe on the Wiki? The current situation is suboptimal, as it's unclear where the threshold for adding yourself as an author to a module header is (whitespace/indentation cleanups, fixing/writing docs, removing lines, adding a 5-line function in a 500 line module, ...?), and it's a bit unfair to those that have contributed far more to a module but haven't bothered to add themselves to the module header. So I'd welcome a standard approach. Would there be a single AUTHORS file for the code in ghc.git, or multiple ones (one for the compiler proper, one for base, ghc-prim, template-haskell, integer-*, ...?) Cheers, hvr