A change log is a good place to list each contributor with a short summary of the change they made. This is typically added by the committer on each commit. E.g. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/trunk/CHANGES.txt
Tom On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Jed Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 10, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Tom Davis wrote: > >> Perhaps create a simple format to follow and stick it in the driver's >> __doc__? > > I like this idea. > > I really threw CONTRIBUTORS together because the project felt like it needed > it at that point, but this idea sounds better. If a consistent format is > adhered > to in docstrings, regenerating static things like CONTRIBUTORS and such > becomes > a trivial matter. > > Jed Smith > [email protected]
