From: Philippe Proulx Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 17:01:37 +0000 (-0500) Subject: doc/man: remove AUTHORS section X-Git-Tag: v2.11.0-rc2~162 X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f5c39ffc97586a469cce9973b2246d79292506c6;p=lttng-tools.git doc/man: remove AUTHORS section Many people have contributed to LTTng-tools and the original authors are not necessarily the top ones now. For instance, GitHub reports this top 5 as of this patch: 1. jgalar 952 commits 45,889 ++ 13,959 -- 2. compudj 880 commits 56,579 ++ 28,095 -- 3. PSRCode 303 commits 25,553 ++ 10,909 -- 4. eepp 199 commits 12,119 ++ 6,461 -- 5. jdesfossez 174 commits 32,546 ++ 3,381 -- Also, man-pages(7), the conventions for writing Linux man pages, says: > Use of an AUTHORS section is strongly discouraged. Let's just keep the project's copyrights and some special thanks without selecting specific authors to list on each man page. Signed-off-by: Philippe Proulx Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau --- diff --git a/doc/man/common-footer.txt b/doc/man/common-footer.txt index a44518f7a..a51d64734 100644 --- a/doc/man/common-footer.txt +++ b/doc/man/common-footer.txt @@ -35,13 +35,3 @@ de Montréal for the LTTng journey. Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped us greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual test cases. - - -AUTHORS -------- -LTTng-tools was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, -Julien Desfossez, and David Goulet. More people have since -contributed to it. - -LTTng-tools is currently maintained by -mailto:jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com[Jérémie Galarneau].