Update of /cvsroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/doc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv8686
Modified Files:
developer-guidelines.sgml
Log Message:
Changing copyright to the Nagios Plugins Development Team, rather than
individual names. Also, clarified use of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, THANKS.in and
AUTHORS
Index: developer-guidelines.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -d -r1.24 -r1.25
--- developer-guidelines.sgml 15 Dec 2004 23:11:11 -0000 1.24
+++ developer-guidelines.sgml 21 Jan 2005 00:01:54 -0000 1.25
@@ -5,68 +5,13 @@
<bookinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author>
- <firstname>Karl</firstname>
- <surname>DeBisschop</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <address><email>karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx</email></address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
-
- <author>
- <firstname>Ethan</firstname>
- <surname>Galstad</surname>
- <authorblurb>
- <para>Author of Nagios</para>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.nagios.org";></ulink></para>
- </authorblurb>
- <affiliation>
- <address><email>netsaint@xxxxxxxxxxxx</email></address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
-
- <author>
- <firstname>Hugo</firstname>
- <surname>Gayosso</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <address><email>hgayosso@xxxxxxx</email></address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
-
-
- <author>
- <firstname>Subhendu</firstname>
- <surname>Ghosh</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <address><email>sghosh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</email></address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
-
- <author>
- <firstname>Stanley</firstname>
- <surname>Hopcroft</surname>
- <affiliation>
-
<address><email>stanleyhopcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</email></address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
-
- <author>
- <firstname>Ton</firstname>
- <surname>Voon</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <address><email>tonvoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</email></address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
-
- <author>
- <firstname>Jeremy T</firstname>
- <surname>Bouse</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <address><email>undrgrid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</email></address>
- </affiliation>
+ <affiliation>
+ <orgname>Nagios Plugins Development Team</orgname>
+ </affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup>
- <pubdate>2002</pubdate>
+ <pubdate>2005</pubdate>
<title>Nagios plug-in development guidelines</title>
<revhistory>
@@ -77,7 +22,7 @@
</revhistory>
<copyright>
- <year>2000 - 2004</year>
+ <year>2000 - 2005</year>
<holder>Nagios Plugins Development Team</holder>
</copyright>
@@ -89,8 +34,8 @@
the plug-in developers and encourage the standarization of the
different kind of plug-ins: C, shell, perl, python, etc.</para>
- <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2003
- (Karl DeBisschop, Ethan Galstad, Stanley Hopcroft, Subhendu Ghosh, Ton
Voon, Jeremy T. Bouse)</para>
+ <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2005
+ (Nagios Plugins Team)</para>
<para>Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim
copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this
@@ -642,10 +587,12 @@
<section><title>Comments</title>
<para>You should use /* */ for comments and not // as some compilers
do not handle the latter form.</para>
- <para>There should not be any named credits in the source code -
contributors
- should be added
- into the AUTHORS file instead. The only exception to this is if a
routine
- has been copied from another source.</para>
+ <para>If you have copied a routine from another source, make sure the
licence
+ from your source allows this. Add a comment referencing the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+ file, where you can put more detail about the source.</para>
+ <para>For contributed code, do not add any named credits in the source
code
+ - contributors should be added into the THANKS.in file instead.
+ </para>
</section>
<section><title>CVS comments</title>
@@ -665,7 +612,7 @@
</para>
<para>If the change is due to a contribution, please quote the
contributor's name
and, if applicable, add the SourceForge Tracker number. Don't forget to
-update the AUTHORS file.</para>
+update the THANKS.in file.</para>
</section>
</section>
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