+1 for a big list of all contributors....

Ranking/Rating is like measuring and comparing penis size.
It's meaningless for the majority of people reading the docs and
serves only as an ego boost for the *ahem* big committers and inspires
penis envy in the not-so-big committers.

We don't really need that in OpenSource :-)

--Wez.

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:56:10 +0000 (GMT), Philip Olson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> How about this, have that list include the people on the
> frontpage and simply title it:
> 
>   Contributors to the PHP Manual
> 
> Inactive or not, all of these people are contributors.  Sure
> some people will be listed in both places but not many.
> 
> Regards,
> Philip
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> 
> > >>>>So, allow users to opt out of the "inactive" page.
> > >>>>Would that solve the problem?
> > >>>
> > >>>Or better word it so that it does not indicate that the listed people
> > >>>are *completely* inactive currently.
> > >>
> > >>Just remove this whole section.
> > >
> > > s/section/pthrase I mean
> > >
> > > Especially this part looks bad:
> > > Authors and Editors
> > >
> > > Although not active currently, the following contributors made a big
> > > impact with adding content to the manual previously:
> >
> > Well, once again I am not much proficient in politics, and all this
> > crediting stuff evolves around politics. Since noone else took up the
> > job of crediting current contributors, someone needed to do so. Since I
> > am not a native English speaker, I might have used wording which is
> > offensive. The points I tried to summarise into the short sentences on
> > the contributions page are:
> >
> >    - those listed on the frontpage are definitely *not the only*
> >      valuable people, but those who are currently *most active*
> >
> >    - those listed on the frontpage plus those listed on the
> >      contributors page are *still not the only* valuable
> >      people, but those, who have been the most busy people
> >      around phpdoc still its beginning
> >
> >    - there are still more people who we not list, but provided
> >      valuable stuff (heck, even the unnamed manual user note
> >      submitters are thanked for their work!)
> >
> > I mean that we look positively on all the people we have listed, and we
> > even look positively on those people who have not been possible to
> > include in those lists. Just for the manual to be accurate and actual,
> > we need to have active people who fix bugs, add new function
> > documentations, etc. And PHP being actively developed and bugfixed, and
> > outdated - albeit proficiently written - documentation does not help
> > users much, we need people to be *active*. We need lots of activity,
> > since we have a lot of tasks to do. Those listed on the frontpage are
> > the most active, although the actives are not limited to those.
> >
> > I would appreciate if someone with better English skills would reword
> > those entities, so they fit into the positive image the whole crediting
> > is supposed to be under.
> >
> > BTW there are some people getting active very recently, like Sean Coates
> > or Dave Barr, although they have no such problem as being listed as
> > 'inactives', since they have not contributed such an invaluable amount
> > of value to the manual like you Sara (which entitled you to be listed).
> >
> > Goba
> >
>

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