As you may know we have removed the @author tags in source files. This is to follow the ASF board recommendation. However that removes the indication of who "contributed" to what piece of code.
Fortunately we have several other mechanisms to make contributions visible to all:
1/ CVS commit logs 2/ mailing list archives 3/ bugzilla issues 4/ contributor's page (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/participating/contributors.html) 5/ changes.xml file (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html#release_changes). Whenever we (Cactus committers) make a change on behalf of someone else we indicate it in this file.
What do Cactus contributors think?
Is this enough?
IMHO, yes. Every contributor should get credit in the change log, which also describes what area the contribution was directed at. More frequent or larger contributions (or contributions that don't involve actual code) should be credited through the contributors page.
What I was thinking was to move the contributor's page (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/participating/contributors.html) to our Wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-cactus) so that it could be more easily edited and more importantly contributors could edit it themselves adding what they are participating in/etc, so that it reflects better the reality. I feel that our contributors's page does not completely reflect the reality.
What do you think?
Maybe we just need to take more care in updating the contributors page timely.
I think a Wiki page is not a good solution. The contributors page stored in CVS is much more "authoritative", and it is included with every release (which a Wiki page is obviously not).
Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Lenz /=/ cmlenz at gmx.de
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