I've read that before. Considering the rule of thumb > A good rule of thumb is, if the person should not be contacted about the project, they need not be listed here.
how do you interpret that rule (plus the rest of what's written there) with respect to people who have specific expertise in just one module? they wouldn't be contacted necessarily about the project as a whole, but they would likely be a point of contact for that one module. Is that person a contributor or developer? I suppose another question might be, whether anyone really cares about this recognition in the pom.xml. Does anyone feel that the <contributor> section is important to maintain? Anyway, i'd just like to consistently maintain these two sections of the pom.xml so that this process isn't all haphazard, which might recognize someone for a particular contribution, but then unintentionally ignore someone else who did something similar. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Robert Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Developers > > > Robert Dale > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Stephen Mallette <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Does anyone have any opinion on how the pom.xml tags <developer> and > > <contributor> are used? > > > > https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/3.3.1/pom.xml#L58-L111 > > > > I don't think we have really kept these sections up to date or have any > > kind of consistency in terms of who ends under which section. Should we > > just say that <developer> is for official apache committers who have > > submitted changes to the repo and <contributor> is the catch-all for > anyone > > else we'd like to recognize (seems like an easy bucketing rule)? > > > > If no one has any strong opinion one way or the other, I'll just go with > > that (and get the sections fully consistent in terms of all > > contributors/developers). > > >
