Hi, +1 for contributors in the RN
Thanks, Eduard On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 30 Jun 2016, at 18:40, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Caty, > > > >> On 30 Jun 2016, at 18:32, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Since May 2015 we added in the Release Plan Help a step that collects > the > >> list of code contributors of a release and lists them in the > announcement > >> mail. > >> > >> IMO this is a nice way to acknowledge and thank people that are > >> contributing to XWiki. > >> > >> I want to propose that we add this contributors list in the Release > Notes. > >> Release Notes are accessible when someone wants to downloads XWiki and > they > >> are also referenced as documentation when we close issues, while the > >> mailinglist are read just by the people that are subscribed. > >> > >> This visibility increase will be beneficial to thank participants and > also > >> maybe motivate other users to join the development. > >> > >> We could have this listing both in the Release Notes and the > Announcement > >> Mail, but I believe it's sufficient in the Release Notes (let me know if > >> you disagree). > >> > >> This change would imply: > >> - Change in the Release Plan to add this step > >> - Change in the Release Plan Help to document the process > >> - Change the Release Notes Template to add the Contributors section > >> > >> The Release Manager would compute the code contributors, but additional > >> people could add themselves in case they contributed translations or > >> performed tests (which usually happen after the release, so it's hard to > >> put this responsibility on the shoulders of the RM). Let me know if you > >> want the contributions to be exclusive to code contributions. Also > having > >> other types of contributions means that we drop the announcement mail > >> listing since it could be incomplete. > >> > >> Let me know what you think. > >> My +1 > > > > Big +1, it’s nicer to have the acks in the RNs. > > Just to be clear my +1 is for: > - having the list of contributors to the release only in the RN > - I’m fine to also list other types of contributions (translations, etc). > The release process needs to explain how to find them and even better how > to automate getting them since we need to be careful that it doesn’t take > too long to gather them. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > >> Thanks, > >> Caty > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
