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diff --git a/docs/contributing.txt b/docs/contributing.txt index 5a9a8428e3..8364405775 100644 --- a/docs/contributing.txt +++ b/docs/contributing.txt @@ -303,9 +303,11 @@ Please follow these coding standards when writing code for inclusion in Django: def my_view(req, foo): # ... - * Please don't put your name in the code. While we appreciate all - contributions to Django, our policy is not to publish individual - developer names in code -- for instance, at the top of Python modules. + * Our policy is to keep the names of developers and contributors + in the ``AUTHORS`` file distributed with Django, so please don't include + your name in the actual code. Feel free to include a change to the + ``AUTHORS`` file in your patch if you make more than a single trivial + change. Committing code =============== |