> On 23 Jan 2015, at 14:57, Aivaras Stepukonis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I find it rather paradoxical to have a webpage for the contacts of > professional (paid?) consultants > ("http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html";) and not have an > equivalent for volunteering contributors. Don't you?
Yes, that's why we (and mostly I drove this) created the original page honouring all the contributors. Please: I'm not saying that those who contribute ought not to be given a page and that that page ought not to be local, if that's desired. Quite the opposite. Rather, I'm simply not wanting any page created with the best of intentions to be abandoned, lost, if the originator of it loses interest or otherwise departs the project. That's my point. A similar point was raised, most recently, I thin, in 2012. The issue was listing all contributors. Okay—but the problem noted was that such a list, as Rory and Rob put it, would almost always be out of date for someone, and better to thank a generic "all" than to identify, however desirable that would be in the abstract. See: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201203.mbox/browser Previous incarnations of native-language sites listed contributors; there was no reason not to, but also no compulsion to do so, unless the contributor insisted upon it, so each did so as resources afforded. As to putting it on the dev@ list, the reason I suggested that was to include more, not fewer people. If you think that l10n (or any other list) works better for your goals, then go ahead. Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
