[Python-Dev] Mercurial?

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 04:25, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> I would remind you all that it's *very* necessary to make sure that
> whatever finds its way into released code is indeed covered by
> contributor agreements. The PSF (as the guardian of the IP) has to
> ensure this, and so we have to find a way of ensuring that all
> contributions to source are correctly logged against authors in a
> traceable way.

I think having full name *and* email addresses make it easier to trace
code, I guess, since previously code not written by committers would
be harder to trace. The fact that some stuff isn't covered just
becomes more explicit, which is a good thing IMO.

Cheers,

Dirkjan