Bertrand proposed some ideas about this [1] that more or less match what we actually do, but we have to ensure though that each and every @author name exists in status.xml, which is likely not to be the case for old files.
During the vote, Vadim proposed a separated file listing all authors, which along with a credits page allow to have a coll "Cocoon is a result of work of xxx developers!" message which I really like :-)
On the other hand, a full author listing means more work because of one more file to update when we commit a contribution (and the need to avoid duplicates).
So, what do you think?
Sylvain
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=108089900026744&w=2
-- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies http://apache.org/~sylvain http://anyware-tech.com Apache Software Foundation Member Research & Technology Director
