Some time has passed since this thread was last touched, but I got around to documenting the things discussed here:
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/commit/4b10cfda1f85aefe3017ec7fc25791d409719329 (Release Notes) https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/commit/0f82111ecd1a1c966760c9009d486eae4adc8a3e (Contributor List) Note that I didn't deal with "Friends of TinkerPop" stuff. I'm still not sure what that should be and it probably needs more discussion. Anyway, please let me know if there are any concerns or things forgotten...if not we will proceed with this direction with/after 3.4.0 On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 2:33 PM Stephen Mallette <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going to assume lazy consensus on the general points of this proposal > as its been a few days now since I originally posted it. I will try to > document the general aspects of what was presented here in the dev docs and > will post back here when I've done so. I think we can take this discussion > in two separate directions at this point one for the release notes changes > and one for the web site (probably new email threads i guess). I don't > think we need to try to force any of this in for the current release that > we're dealing with. In fact I'll probably make the dev doc changes in a > branch so that they don't go in as part of this release. > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 11:59 AM Stephen Mallette <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There has been some discussion within the PMC over the last month or so >> about how to recognize the various contributors to Apache TinkerPop. We >> currently have this: >> >> http://tinkerpop.apache.org/#committers >> >> but we think some changes should occur. First, we would like to better >> recognize the list of folks who contributed during a particular release >> period to include: >> >> 1. git contributions for a release will be aggregated and presented in >> the release notes. >> 2. non-code contributions to a release will be added and presented in the >> release notes. >> >> I don't know if "release notes" means CHANGELOG or Upgrade Docs or >> something else - I suppose that remains up for discussion. The issue is >> more about capturing these contributions better on a per-release basis. >> >> Second, we expect to modify the website in that space given in the link >> above - rather than have it read "Apache TinkerPop Committers" it will >> instead be "Apache TinkerPop Contributors" and it will include both >> official committers as well as "Friends of the TinkerPop" (working >> title...suggest something better??). >> >> For the committers section, individuals can keep this information up to >> date themselves (because they have access to the git repository), but we >> will ask for a bio update from each person every 6 months via email with a >> request to indicate an "active" or "inactive" status. If you are "inactive" >> it simply means that you aren't currently participating in the project. >> Irrespective of being active or inactive, your name and tenure >> accomplishments remain present on the front page of the web site. Being >> "inactive" does not affect your status as an Apache committer/PMC member - >> that remains unchanged. Should you decide that you are inactive at some >> point, note that there is no special process to become "active" again - you >> just have to update your bio to do so. The format of the committer section >> would be basically the same as it is now but would have active and inactive >> sections, sorted by date of TinkerPop commitership (or membership in the >> pre-Apache days), as they are now. >> >> The new "Friends of the TinkerPop" section will be a listing of those >> people who have promoted the project in some positive capacity (e.g. >> developed a third-party library that has some good benefit to the >> community) but aren't committers/pmc members. >> >> There's still a fair bit to sort out in terms of how this will be >> implemented, but these are the general big picture items. Please let us >> know what you think and then we can drive into details. >> >> >> >> >> . >> >
