On Monday, July 19, 2004, 11:47:40 AM, Philip wrote: > I thought we were going to scrap this whole "raw number of > commits" thing in favor of individual credits per page. Or > will both be used? In the very least I thought we agreed > to never use raw numbers and to be an author you must > prove it yourself. Quality versus Quantity. Show me the > money! Computers dumb, humans smart. User note editors is > one thing but being an author of the PHP manual? It just > doesn't feel right but maybe that's because I'm not an > author ;)
> Someone needs to fix Bonsai so we can actually view these > commits. > Regards, > Philip I agree with Philip and don't think raw number of commits is a very good solution. But per page would also get very messy over time. Why not just have per-extension credits (where applicable)? Also, a "commit" doesn't make you an "author" either. As Gabor noted, I've mostly done search and replaces, fixing thousands of typos and grammatical mistakes. The only real content I've added is writing all the GMP function examples. I don't consider myself fitting into the "author" category here, maybe the crazy-pedantic-proofreader/editor category? Again, agreeing with Philip, I don't think you should get into the author list automatically. If people really want to be credited, they can email the list saying so, and why they think they should included. This doesn't seem like it's asking too much, and the raw # of commits has the potential for abuse. Whenever people see a "Top 10" list, instinctual competition habits may arise. Dave > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: >> > http://goba.hu/commiters.html (beware 376 Kbyte html file!) >> >> Additionaly to this, here is the data of how many commits people had in >> the last half year (since january 1 actually) (with only those CVS >> accounts who had at least one commit). >> >> I propose we put a line above baoengb and add the people above it to the >> frontpage authors list (this is nearly the same as the magic 100 mark we >> use). I exclude baoengb here, because I know he achieved this high >> commit number mostly by adding translated stuff to the EN tree, and then >> reverting (multiple times AFAIR). Others are mostly respected people >> here AFAIK, and they deserve to be listed as top authors. Dave is >> someone to think about a bit, as he mostly achieved a top commiter >> rating by mass fixing small mistakes (html->HTML, php->PHP, PHP3->PHP 3, >> and such). >> >> Still I keep suggesting that the historical author list should contain >> people above the 100 commit mark from the list presented at the URL >> above (with a bit of human correction if needed). >> >> Funny that I am just above the line :)) >> >> OK, now provide your suggestions! >> >> +---------------+------+ >> | didou | 1291 | - Mehdi Achour >> | nlopess | 573 | - Nuno Lopes >> | georg | 245 | - Georg Richter >> | betz | 244 | - Friedhelm Betz >> | tony2001 | 243 | - Antony Dovgal >> | dave | 233 | - Dave (? - mostly done search&replace) >> | vrana | 219 | - Jakub Vrana >> | dams | 194 | - Damien Seguy >> | irchtml | 189 | - Kenneth Schwartz >> | goba | 172 | - Gabor Hojtsy >> >> +===============+======+ (suggested crediting mark) >> >> | baoengb | 106 | >> | wez | 64 | >> | derick | 58 | >> | moriyoshi | 44 | >> | mg | 41 | >> | pollita | 37 | >> | progcom | 34 | >> | vincent | 31 | >> | kennyt | 28 | >> | et | 26 | >> | yannick | 21 | >> | philip | 19 | >> | derek | 18 | >> | hholzgra | 14 | >> | sean | 13 | >> | dickmeiss | 11 | >> | ali | 8 | >> | abies | 6 | >> | jan | 5 | >> | thetaphi | 4 | >> | samesch | 4 | >> | helly | 4 | >> | gui | 4 | >> | vlad | 4 | >> | curt | 3 | >> | mj | 3 | >> | stas | 3 | >> | cucinato | 3 | >> | andrei | 3 | >> | alindeman | 3 | >> | jdonagher | 2 | >> | hirokawa | 2 | >> | joey | 2 | >> | leszek | 2 | >> | conni | 1 | >> | poz | 1 | >> | ae | 1 | >> | rasmus | 1 | >> | amt | 1 | >> | hakan | 1 | >> | rioter | 1 | >> | nathan | 1 | >> | jsjohnst | 1 | >> | cece | 1 | >> | sp | 1 | >> +---------------+------+ >>
