On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Now to the second point: he does rewrite a lot of the patches you send. I wrote/submitted a number of patches, but only 3 got accepted as-is. Implementation-wise, the rewritten code didn't lose anything to my implementation (usually they're equivalent or superior taking many more ASIO internals into account). Commit history-wise, my commit messages were better and explained problems in minute detail. I wouldn't mind if he instead copy-paste'd my commit messages as it'd better record why the changes are necessary.
This actually seems to kinda back up what I was alluding to earlier. In these scenarios, does Chris make sure to add comments saying that you were the original progenitor of these ideas/contributions? Or does he just rewrite your patches and not update the copyright notices? While this kind of stuff isn't exactly wrong in a strict legal sense, I don't think it's a good thing by any measure. People deserve credit for the things they fix and notice. For example, the Linux kernel will often include a "Reported-by" in the commit message that gives credit to the person who discovered the bug. - Christian