Would it be too much additional overhead if we all agreed to track patch authors, reviewers, bug authors, etc., in Subversion memo's in a semi-structured way?
I'm thinking of what the Subversion project does, mainly using 4 possible fields in the check in memo: Patch by: Suggested by: Found by: Review by: (You use whichever are appropriate. Not every check-in will have all four). http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html#crediting The nice thing about this minimal amount of structure is it allows easy extraction of contributors via a simple script, e.g.,: http://www.red-bean.com/svnproject/contribulyzer/ As you may know, our current informal approach tracks committers, but does not explicitly track other contributors. -Rob
