On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Greg Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:28, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Ha!! That thing is *soooooo* out of date, it isn't even funny. In > short, it is totally unmaintained. I dunno that you want to use that > as a reference :-P > > To answer Rob's question: it is an issue for each project to decide. > > Apache Subversion doesn't have a "people" page. We consider it a team > thing, rather than about individuals. People get their recognition via > commit logs :-P ... Is the project about doing great work, or about > getting your name in lights? > Sometimes both sometime one or the other. The answers vary greatly in my experience. > > Cheers, > -g > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
