[Bug-gnubg] Proper credits

[Albert Silver]

This was posted in the GammonLine forum which I am forwarding to the
mailing list:

Well, I don't feel like doing all of the mathematical homework for the
gnu team, particularly given how many of my ideas and suggestions have
been absorbed by gnu without any attribution to me whatsoever. But to
reiterate, it is wrong to imagine that a variable stopping point,
triggered by 2.33 jsd (or that combined with a fixed minimum number of
trials), gives the same confidence as a 2.33 jsd result with a fixed
stopping point. I ran some experiments and posted some of the results
here earlier. Use more than 2.33. 

Douglas Zare
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In the forum I responded:

I'm sure no intention was meant to step on any toes. In the list of
changes for example, you'll always see credit attributed to the
originator of an idea on top of the programmer responsible for
implementing it. Perhaps you could delineate a few of these ideas so
that proper credit can be given? I'll forward this message to the GNUBG
mailing list as this is a serious comment and should be addressed.

Albert