Andy Wingo <[email protected]> writes: >> Aww, too bad. I think it's a missed opportunity to be inclusive and >> generous with attribution which might motivate people to contribute. >> Guix is in a unique position with this opportunity. > > If there are other ways we can recognize people's work, we should > consider them :) Think of it this way though, a packager is a person > who packages. The value is in the verb, not the noun; packaging is an > ongoing process. We should reward the process, via NEWS, and perhaps in > other ways.
With every release the release announcement also includes a list of contributors since the last release next to a number of their contributions. I think that this is a very public statement of appreciation and quite motivating (because of the numbers, so you can even be competitive if you want to). I don’t think package objects are good places to attribute contributors (all of them?) to a package. They are usually invisible to users > Besides, no one wants to be the person that removes a name from a list > of a package's packagers! +1 to this. It would be so awkward. And not removing names from packages may result in a really long list, eventually, and removing the names then would be no less awkward. ~~ Ricardo
