Hi Campbell, Sure, proper crediting of our contributors is always cool! Let's do this as you propose for now, and investigate other methods later.
-Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 31 Aug, 2011, at 7:59, Campbell Barton wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Alex Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Alex Fraser" <[email protected]> >>> >>> For now it might be easiest to add all the 2.5x credits pages to the >>> page mentioned above. But as suggested by Campbell, we could move >>> to a >>> more scalable format that shows each developer and the number of >>> commits they have made, like this: >>> >>> http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/credits/ >> >> ... except that it would be great if we could show companies that >> sponsor development there too. In my case, I would be happy for the >> commits I make on behalf of a client be listed as a commit by that >> company, rather than by me. >> >> Cheers, >> Alex > > Credits link from splash seems reasonable, or link from help menu, or > prominent link from download page - I'm not that fussed as long as its > not getting in the way too much. > > As for how to maintain this list - I doubt maintaining by hand will > work, developers already don't add themselves to the `Contributors` > section in the header much, so if this page is only to allow people to > add themselves who like being credited - then I suppose it serves that > purpose but wont end up crediting people who don't make the effort to > add themselves there. > > Mostly I see this as being an extra wiki document to maintain, we > already barely manage to keep lists of module owners, changelogs, > release logs, py api changelogs, regression files.... etc. Up to date, > so I'd be surprised if this page ends up being properly maintained. > > > So I'll propose to parse svn logs, do some basic regex to get patch > numbers and find the patch author names so we credit them too. The > script can have some hard coded remappings to credit companies rather > than the committers - think this wont be too hard to manage. > If Ton's ok with it, I can look into this, think its only a few hrs > work. > > -- > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
