[PATCH] add CREDITS file

[PATCH] add CREDITS file

[Stephen Hemminger]

Add a credits file of past contributors to DPDK.
There are obviously more names that should be added but
lets start this with Venky.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 CREDITS | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CREDITS

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..021fed1c76c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+	This is at least a partial credits-file of people that have
+	contributed to the DPDK project.  It is sorted by name and
+	formatted to allow easy grepping and beautification by
+	scripts.  The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address
+	(W), and description (D)
+
+----------
+
+N: Venky Vekatesan
+E: venky.venkatesan@intel.com
+D: Original founder of DPDK project
+W: https://www.dpdk.org/about/venky/
-- 
2.39.2

Re: [PATCH] add CREDITS file

[Jerin Jacob]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 10:00 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> Add a credits file of past contributors to DPDK.
> There are obviously more names that should be added but
> lets start this with Venky.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>


> ---
>  CREDITS | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 CREDITS
>
> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..021fed1c76c1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/CREDITS
> @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> +       This is at least a partial credits-file of people that have
> +       contributed to the DPDK project.  It is sorted by name and
> +       formatted to allow easy grepping and beautification by
> +       scripts.  The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address
> +       (W), and description (D)
> +
> +----------
> +
> +N: Venky Vekatesan
> +E: venky.venkatesan@intel.com
> +D: Original founder of DPDK project
> +W: https://www.dpdk.org/about/venky/
> --
> 2.39.2
>

Re: [PATCH] add CREDITS file

[Thomas Monjalon]

17/10/2023 18:29, Stephen Hemminger:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/CREDITS
> @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> +	This is at least a partial credits-file of people that have
> +	contributed to the DPDK project.  It is sorted by name and
> +	formatted to allow easy grepping and beautification by
> +	scripts.  The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address
> +	(W), and description (D)

This is strangely indented.

> +
> +----------
> +
> +N: Venky Vekatesan

Typo in the name

> +E: venky.venkatesan@intel.com

This email won't work, better to not have this line.

> +D: Original founder of DPDK project
> +W: https://www.dpdk.org/about/venky/

[PATCH v2] add CREDITS file

[Stephen Hemminger]

Add a credits file of past contributors to DPDK.
There are obviously more names that should be added but
lets start this with Venky.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
---
v2 - reword opening, fix spelling

 CREDITS | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CREDITS

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c068d91bf57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+This file lists some of the significant past contributors to the DPDK.
+It is sorted by name and formatted to allow easy searching use by scripts.
+The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address (W), and description (D).
+
+----------
+
+N: Venky Venkatesan
+D: Original founder of DPDK project
+W: https://www.dpdk.org/about/venky/
-- 
2.39.2