+1 Thanks, Marius
On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
