I think just leave <developer> alone.  If anyone feels like they need to be
recognized, they can include a <contributor> in their PR.

Robert Dale

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Stephen Mallette <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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).
> > >
> >
>

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