Hi all, > * Thus wrote Dave: > > 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 ;) > > > >... > > > > 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? > > Although my opinion is rather skewed, I tend to agree with this. If > I can devot some more time to the completion of the oop5 docs, > would that be more of a contribution than 100 typo fixes? > > Perhaps a move to more of a author per section? The only reason > being is that If I take any credit, it shouldn't be for the whole > documentation, since I've only contributed mostly to the oop5 > docs, which is only a small portion of the whole with documentation.
I am also not a big fan of raw commit numbers, but I tend to say, that people with more commits most likely contribute also 'valuable' content to the documentation. AFAIRC we also discussed per section author, nice idea, but not very practical. Can be based on the first commit of a section, but say five people modify the contents textual, who is the author of the section? As long as nobody has a pratical solution for credits beside that raw number thing, stay with the raw numbers. Prevents nobody from claiming to be an author/editor/other contributor. etc. ;-) Ask yourself ;-) what does qualify someone as author/editor..? Are 100 typo fixes more important as new sections? Is one huge commit of section/extension docs more than 100 small fixes to existing docs? I can't decide and I don't want to have to do ;-) nor can I present a solution for crediting. IMHO we should not tend to make things too complicated. Crediting is a long outstanding todo and Goba has done some nice work about. Just let it happen ;-) it must not stay forever, but is definitly better than nothing. Friedhelm
