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Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Re: Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Post by gsemet »

gfalcao wrote: post #39
gsemet wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi. I am Gaetan, the current maintainer of Guake ! I am so sorry to see you find your "authorship" having disappeared from the Guake history, there was no intent from my part to remove it ! I only discussed with the maintainer back in 2013 from Pierre Yves, there has been many maintainers over the years I do not even know ! This history would have indeed a very place in the HISTORY page in the documentation, do not h…

Hello Gaetan, thank you so much for adding the authorship back. Please don't get me wrong, I know you're not responsible for it disappearing and I'm not looking to blame anyone. I'm happy that Guake is still being active maintained. I'll submit a pull-request with the story soon. Thank you!

cool ! If only we could take a beer together ! But, at least, I hope, this will end up in a nice story and blog posts about opensource software development. We are all humans, mistakes can be made. The project lived a lot actually, and many files has been changed, the "chain" of maintainers made some of them not knowing the others !

Re: Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Post by gsemet »

selexin wrote: post #17
bigiain wrote: post #15

Interestingly (to me at least), I was just reading he memcached website (from another HN submission), and even though it's been completely rewritten in a different language, they still credit Brad Fitzpatrick as the original author. No reason not to. Anyone arguing otherwise is being petty and mean in my opinion. Sure, a bunch of new people have written some/most/all of the current codebase. But they built on top of…

Yeh I agree with this. Licensing and possible legalities aside, I think it’s just the right thing to do. The issue seems to be getting a bit of attention now (when I posted there was 9 thumbs up, now there is 173 and a PR on the readme), so hopefully the current maintainers (re)visit the issue and give him his slice of credit.

I actually not seen the issue opened 2 months ago :( I do not have many times on it and I read around half of tickets people opens, sadly this one did not :(

Re: Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Post by isatty »

chrisseaton wrote: post #27
gfalcao wrote: post #21

Hello, I'm Gabriel, the original author of Guake. Let me clarify the whole story: In 2006 I had just gotten into college and was learning Python by myself, my English skills (also self-taught) were pretty low and I had to rely a lot on whatever material was available in Portuguese (I'm from Brazil). In 2007 I had an amazing college teacher, the "drop of water in the desert" kind of teacher. He was trying to convince…

> I'd have to install libqt on my Debian? No way! Why are you so firmly opposed to libqt?

Longer build times (Gentoo).

Re: Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Post by ldng »

chrisseaton wrote: post #27
gfalcao wrote: post #21

Hello, I'm Gabriel, the original author of Guake. Let me clarify the whole story: In 2006 I had just gotten into college and was learning Python by myself, my English skills (also self-taught) were pretty low and I had to rely a lot on whatever material was available in Portuguese (I'm from Brazil). In 2007 I had an amazing college teacher, the "drop of water in the desert" kind of teacher. He was trying to convince…

> I'd have to install libqt on my Debian? No way! Why are you so firmly opposed to libqt?

In KDE2 times ? Probably an issue with the licensing of QT at the time. It has changed one or two times since then.

Re: Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Post by singlow »

gfalcao wrote: post #22
thom wrote: post #18

If anybody reads this and decides it sounds like a nice way to summon a terminal, be aware that if you're a non-Gnome user you can use Yukuake in KDE, and the --drop-down option to the XFCE terminal. I usually have it bound to Ctrl-` and find it very convenient (also someone satisfying to just show and hide for no reason other than I like the animation).

Yakuake is what inspired Guake. I wanted to use Yakuake without needing to install libqt in my machine.

Maybe, but the original inspiration was the tilde shortcut for opening the console in the Quake game, hence the names.

Re: Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Post by jawr »

singlow wrote: post #45
gfalcao wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yakuake is what inspired Guake. I wanted to use Yakuake without needing to install libqt in my machine.

Maybe, but the original inspiration was the tilde shortcut for opening the console in the Quake game, hence the names.

I think he knows why it’s called that :)

Re: Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Post by sebazzz »

sequoia wrote: post #47

This seems like a non-story. Original author says "please add my name back," current maintainers say "OK will do." What am I missing?

This is probably posted as a "discussion piece" on HN. The same like years old news or Wikipedia articles are submitted.

Re: Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Post by bootloop »

sebazzz wrote: post #48
sequoia wrote: post #47

This seems like a non-story. Original author says "please add my name back," current maintainers say "OK will do." What am I missing?

This is probably posted as a "discussion piece" on HN. The same like years old news or Wikipedia articles are submitted.

It was posted before anyone else then the author commented on the github issue.

Re: Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Post by aasasd »

gfalcao wrote: post #21

Hello, I'm Gabriel, the original author of Guake. Let me clarify the whole story: In 2006 I had just gotten into college and was learning Python by myself, my English skills (also self-taught) were pretty low and I had to rely a lot on whatever material was available in Portuguese (I'm from Brazil). In 2007 I had an amazing college teacher, the "drop of water in the desert" kind of teacher. He was trying to convince…

Personally I'm impressed that you remember details of the development after this time. I usually suppress the memories of all the frustration in a few months with the help of unhinged hedonism and nonstop entertainment.
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