Hi, 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? 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? Another solution would be to have some magic tool that would automatically extract statistical information from: - CVS - mailing list - bugzilla and extract contributor with their contributions from this. That would probably be very nice but I don't know of such tool... So I'd say it's probably enough to open up the contributor's page using our wiki for now. Comments? Thanks -Vincent Wanna see JUnit in Action? (http://manning.com/massol) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
