From f5c39ffc97586a469cce9973b2246d79292506c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philippe Proulx Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 12:01:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] doc/man: remove AUTHORS section MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 --- doc/man/common-footer.txt | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) 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]. -- 2.34.1