On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Victor Stinner
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2014/1/22 Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>:
>> Thanks! What's your definition of author vs. contributor? I've never
>> really thought about this. Maybe it would be easier to just name me as
>> creator and everyone else as contributor?
>
> Usually, a contributor write a small patch, maybe 2 and 3, and then go
> away. An author usually invest some weeks of its time to develop or
> enhance an important feature. Well, these definitions are arbitrary
> :-)

That's why I'd rather not pass judgment on people's contribution.

> In CPython, there is a list of names (Misc/ACKS) and a list of people
> who have the commit access.

I started it. :-) It has several people in it who were important to me
for moral support even though they never contributed anything directly
to the project.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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