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Re: Are multiple AUTHOR tags legit?
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Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:02:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, William Howard wrote:
> I think a part should only have one AUTHOR line (although, as you say, this
> is not stated in the library header spec)
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> If a part has two or more authors, it falls into one of two possibilities
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> a) Original author and one or more part modifier/updaters - in this case the
> part modifiers/updaters should be moved to the history
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> b) Two or more authors really did collaborate (and I suspect these are few
> and far between) - in this case I think both authors should be listed on one
> author line (but I'm open to argument)
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> What ever is decided it needs documenting in the library header spec (and
> while its being updated the other lines need explicit singular/multiple
> indicators)
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> One for the 2007/2008 LSC I feel
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> William
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com>
> To: <lugnet.cad.dat.parts@lugnet.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 1:05 AM
> Subject: Are multiple AUTHOR tags legit?
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>
> > I've noticed that a number of official parts have multiple 0 AUTHOR meta
> > statements in the part header. All the ones I've seen so far have James
> > Jessiman as the first author, and someone else as the second one.
> >
> > Is this the correct way to indicate that a file has had multiple authors?
> > If
> > you look at the <http://www.ldraw.org/Article398.html Official Library
> > Header
> > Specification>, you'll see that no mention is made one way or another
> > about
> > whether or not this is legit, but there's at least an implication (to me,
> > anyway) that it's not legit.
> >
> > If having multiple authors is supposed to be shown like this, I think the
> > official header spec should be updated to indicate this. Also, while it
> > appears
> > that the authors are listed in chronological order (with the most recent
> > author
> > listed last), this should also be documented.
> >
> > --Travis
I think there should only ever be one primary author - nowadays, the one that
takes the responsibility of submitting to the Parts Tracker. During the CA
header migration, where I have encountered this and assessed that it was a true
collaboration, I have added a !HISTORY line like:
0 !HISTORY 1998-01-11 [simlego] Secondary author
There were less than ten occurences. Most cases of multiple AUTHOR lines were
really change history.
I would not want to complicate the AUTHOR line syntax for a few historical
examples.
Chris
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| I think a part should only have one AUTHOR line (although, as you say, this is not stated in the library header spec) If a part has two or more authors, it falls into one of two possibilities a) Original author and one or more part modifier/updaters (...) (19 years ago, 1-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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