Why not just stick a big list of all contributors in there for now, and work towards crediting per page?
Seems like a sensible balance between overall fairness and overall work; why expend huge effort on the credits section when there is plenty of other stuff to be getting on with.
I don't think any kind of filtering on the list of committers will lead to satisfactory results without someone to audit everything ever done by everyone (just MHO), so I see it as a maintainance task with no real benefits compared to listing all people (you already have the list).
We have gone through this conversation several times. All people means even people with one commit? If we list all people, do we list editors on the frontpage (exactly like PEARdoc does)? Who are editors? They need to be picked by hand, no? If we list all people, who we list on the phpcredits() page? Noone? All people do not fit there.
The idea of crediting current authors a bit more is to encourage them to stay here. They make up the small list which we can put into phpcredits(). If we go with the long list, current contributors will not get more credit then those whose content was probably replaced or overedited by the currently active team.
Goba
