On 2012-02-15 4:44 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
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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.
...
Excellent discussion. I'd suggest PPMC members look at the
well-established and (incredibly) detailed commit log message standards
our own Apache Subversion project uses:
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html#crediting
It might be useful if a couple of folks review those guidelines, pick a
couple that seem pertinent, and propose them for this project to adopt.
As you might expect, as a project that builds a source code tracker,
the Subversion project is pretty detailed about how they track commit
logs. 8-)
In general, providing credit like this in a simple way that's visible to
the active developers on the project (wherever that is) is definitely
important. There are both some contributors who simply like to get the
credit; it also allows the existing committers to clearly see what new
contributors are doing over time, allowing the community to better see
who to consider for future committer votes.
Note: in general, giving credit is a good thing, especially to new
submitters. Making people "owners" or "leaders" of specific modules in
the larger sense is... not necessarily a good thing; in terms of
ownership, we encourage the community as a whole to own the project.
- shane
