--- Mer 15/2/12, Rob Weir <[email protected]> ha scritto: ... > > > > Perhaps we should establish some policy concerning > > the list of contributors (where is it, BTW?); no > > idea if we want to distinguish between recent (AOO) > > contributors and previous (OOo) contributors. > > > > I think this is at two levels: > > 1) Give credit in the commit memo when committing the patch >
Yes, this is key. > 2) Add to credits list here: http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html > > That page is what we point to from the about box, I believe. > It is very out-of-date. It does not include you or me. > I see .. I personally don't care but a lot of people do and it can become a good motivation. In certain other project we have some level: you start by being an "additional code cpntributor" and when you become a committer you are jumped to a "developer" level. > In any case, if we get the SVN side correct, and do it in a > consistent way, then we can easily extract a list of patch > submitters to add to the credits page before each release. > For example: "Fixed overflow error in smallBuffer (patch > from Joe Bloggs)". > That's something we are getting wrong (and I include myself here). Instead of the lazy one line comments we should be using a template; something like this, in a text file: ___ Clean buffer overflows when initializing .doc files. As shown in Wikileaks a bogusly created .doc file can embed a trojan that will capture all your data if your password is 12345. Contributed by: The Anonymous Group BZ Issue : 666 MFC after: 3 weeks. _____ In my other pet project the bug reporting system is notified and I receive mail after 3 weeks reminding me to merge changes from the current branch. Bug reports are usually taken into account when electing new committers. > But what about other areas, like forum volunteers, people > submitting bugs, people helping on ooo-users, people > designing logos, etc. ? > doc committers should receive similar recognition. Some other contributions are difficult to quantify and are usually incorrectly quantified. We cannot be perfect but we can try to do better. > Of course, another approach is to not have a credits > page. I think we should have one but it should be opt-in. In any case I do think we should break apart the contributors from the old OpenOffice.org and the active ones in Apache. ... > > A third approach would be to let those who care add their > own name. > So instead of a web page for credits, move that to the wiki, > and invite contributors to add their own info. We sort of do > that already, with the "people" page, but that is not as easy > to edit as the wiki. > Maybe this would be useful so that people describe what they would like to work on, but this is something that would likely run out of control very easily. Pedro.
