[Kimchi-devel] About the author information in Kimchi source code

[Shu Ming]

Hi,

As you have seen, we have author information in Kimchi source code to
specially honour the writer of the original source files and the
succeeding writers with substantial change. Unfortunately, I found the
authors in some files were updated without any substantial change. One
recent example about this is "src/kimchi/model/debugreports.py", the
author was changed to "Aline Manera" and the original author was gone.
And this change was introduced by "refactor model: Create a separated
model for debug report resource" that got a new file "debugreports.py"
split from another huge file without much change. I don't think this
split was deserved to change the author in the new file. Then, how do we
define what is "substantial change". I would say it is a new feature
changing the file with more than 1/3 of the total lines of code. It is a
not necessary a hard rule, but it is obvious that code split should not
be deserved to have a new author for the file.