> It was very exciting as a first time contribution for me. This would indeed be a good reason to do so. With GDPR in mind it is probably better to ask the contributor to add its own name to the pom file.
Robert On 28-5-2019 22:24:17, Enrico Olivelli <eolive...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Is there any rule to add a reference to a contributor in the contributors section of the pom.xml of a plugin. For instance today I have merged a PR from a new time contributor to the maven jdeps plugin. Should I add his email/reference to the pom of that plugin? I remember that the first time I contributed to the war plugin the committer added me to the list of contributors to the project. It was very exciting as a first time contribution for me. Enrico