On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:07:37PM +0100, Andreas Köhler wrote: > Hi folks, > > to me it seems as if we do not really keep the AUTHORS file up-to-date. > At least I tend to hesitate because of the needs to > > * describe what patch contributors contributed > * describe possible future work to avoid necessary updates > * decide when "other contributors" evolve to "main developers" > * describe what they do and have done even more verbosely then > > So I would like to propose something completely different :-D What > about simply listing names without email addresses or descriptions, > merging the two categories of contributors and sorting them > lexicographically (as if written in some form of latin letters), > something like the attachment. I would also offer to gather all the > missing names from 2007 and 2008. > > I am not sure what to do with the history part of the file though. > > Opinions?
Here's an idea: list the names like below and, if someone is a committer, list their svn login id so that their contributions can be tracked that way. or maybe, if trac will do it, give a link to a search by author. If someone really wants to know what a particular person did, they can follow the link. .02 oh, and, did I get booted? ;-) ... > Andreas Köhler > Andreas Rottmann > Andrew Arensburger :( > Andy Wingo > Arnold Troeger > Bartek Szady ... A
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