On 12/4/05, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Martin van den Bemt wrote:
> > Also have a look at http://people.apache.org/~mvdb/contributors.html
> > which was automatically generated by maven, based on the all the
> > developers sections in commons-proper.
> Should this be a list of contributers and/or committers?
> I ask as the headline talks about contributors but on the list are only
> committers. At least the VFS contributors are missing.
>
> If we are able to autogenerate this list, maybe we might list the
> contributors too.


I have two concerns here. First, not all components maintain a contributor
list in addition to the committer list, so any contributor list would be
inherently inaccurate. Secondly, how do you define a contributor? Someone
who posted a suggestion to the mailing list? Someone who points out a typo?
Someone who provided a 1-line patch? A 100-line patch? Without a concrete
definition, it's hard to know when we need to update project.xml when making
a change.

Therefore, I'd prefer to just list committers, if we need a list at all.

--
Martin Cooper


How did you create the "Emeritus" section?
> Is this list based on the (non) commits in the last year?
>
> I ask as e.g. adammurdoch is still on the list but I cant find a commit.
> I have no problem with him, but if we would like to have a correct
> status than this is a failure, isnt it? BTW I just checked the
> commons-dev commit messages, so maybe I missed something.
>
> ---
> Mario
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