Thanks everyone for the feedback, I will update the commit guidelines accordingly.
For the release notes, I don't have a preference. I don't think someone is spending time going over the list of contributors (apart maybe from PMCs for inviting new committers :)). If we want to include something then we could possibly include a GitHub link showing the contributors for a certain period of time (from last release date to current release date) such as the following: https://github.com/apache/calcite/graphs/contributors?from=2021-06-04&to=2021-09-24 Best, Stamatis On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 5:48 AM Haisheng Yuan <[email protected]> wrote: > +1. That can reduce some work for contributors and committers. > > On 2021/09/23 22:14:11, Francis Chuang <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 for not requiring the contributor's name in the commit message and > > having "The following people contributed to this release" in the release > > notes. > > > > On 24/09/2021 6:20 am, Alessandro Solimando wrote: > > > Nowadays Github allows you to fetch that info very easily, I think > it's a > > > leftover from the past where the task proved to be harder. > > > > > > On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 22:09, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> I lead towards allowing people to use github if they want to know who > > >> contributed what. Simple is better. > > >> > > >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:25 AM Vladimir Sitnikov < > > >> [email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >>> I incline to "The following people contributed to this release" > > >>> For instance, I like the way Gradle release notes are written: > > >>> https://docs.gradle.org/7.2/release-notes.html > > >>> > > >>> The trick is that the author name does not convey the URL, so either > we > > >> use > > >>> just names or we keep a contributor database. > > >>> > > >>> Vladimir > > >>> > > >> > > > > > >
