Hey Tim. > As an infrequent contributor these days, I'm not seeking any more recognition > from my contributions, nor would more recognition encourage me to contribute > more. I'd rather the Django team spend their efforts on building software > than on publicity.
Recognising contributions, in the many forms that they take, is about the sustainability of the project. We have a maintainership problem — it's OK now, but there's no depth to it. We have a diversity of maintainership problem, in that the profile of regular contributors doesn't match that of the user-base as a whole. There's much writing on the life-cycle of projects, and how they can either open out to the community, or turn in on themselves and wither and die. (See e.g. Nadia Eghbal's Working in Public for a good entry point.) There's a whole host of inter-related points here but, providing recognition of contributions give public validation that helps those who aren't economically privileged enough to spend many hours on open source just for the intrinsic reward of it — it can help people get jobs. It also helps us to identify the hidden work that's done, so hopefully we can make that more sustainable. If we can highlight the contributions from the community that's, hopefully, a little more diverse than it looks like on the surface. To make an effort to call-out contributors, especially those just starting out, is a small thing we can do. Kind Regards, Carlton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/94e252a7-9d41-4eff-a415-de403157e9d7n%40googlegroups.com.
