Am 06/18/2011 06:46 PM, schrieb Dave Fisher:
On Jun 18, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Marcus Lange wrote:
Am 06/18/2011 05:02 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
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.
If only specific people, I doubt that we can find a rule that really all would
agreed to.
Personally, I'd favor acknowledging many, rather than few.
ACK, who is recognized as contributor/committer/member should be allowed to add
her/his name. Or ask to add if they cannot do it themselves.
Each committer should update the roster to add their name, email address,
affiliation (if allowed) and area of interest.
When looking at the roaster at the HTTPD project I like the little list
for every name. You don't read just a name but also know what she/he is
doing, comes from and so on. And without to telling too much details and
private stuff. So, it's up to everybody to write that what the world is
allowed to know.
Doing so is a great way to make sure that your apache account is properly setup
and that you will be able to commit your changes.
It serves as a test and it let's everyone know the individuals empowered to
commit then review. All other developers will then know those empowered to
review then commit.
As committers we are the agents for the community and the community should know
who we are - one place.
In the "old" project we had a long list of people that have helped the project
and product:
http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html
Sure. And we can have a page of known OOo "downstreams", providers like ODFauthors and
"forks" like LibreOffice.
Maybe we can agree to some categories to avoid having just a long list.
Maybe Rob's five categories should be "Teams". Committers add their names to
the teams they plan to help in addition to the roster.
Sounds good.
Marcus
