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)
