On Jun 18, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > As was noted, we now have a basic web site set up for the project: > > http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ > > I'd like to draw attention to the "Some of our contributors" page in > particular: > > http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html > > From what I can tell, the intent of this page is to acknowledge contributors > to the project. And my sense was that this meant more than just committers. > > I added my own name, based on my contribution to getting the initial web > site started. But I think this is probably worth having a discussion on, > especially since others, whose name has not been added, have also made > recent contributions. > > Question: How should this page be managed? Is there an Apache requirement > for how this is handled? Or does each project set its own rules? If the > later, what rules do we want? Do we want this to be comprehensive? Or > highlight only the "top contributors", by some definition. > > Personally, I'd favor acknowledging many, rather than few.
Most projects (all?) have a roster of the PMC and committers. http://tomcat.apache.org/whoweare.html http://poi.apache.org/who.html http://pdfbox.apache.org/team-list.html http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/team.html http://httpd.apache.org/contributors/ The HTTPD Server project has Major Contributors as well with a big thank you to Rob McCool. I really think that the OOo should follow a pattern like these. The HTTPD roster includes greater detail. This might be good. One of first things that new committers typically do in a project is to add their name to the roster. Very often it is the first commit! Regards, Dave
