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On 12/03/2015 11:36 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Florian, do you have other ideas on how we could publicly show our
> appreciation of contributions?
Not right now. If any ever occurs to me I'll let you guys know ;)
Flo
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On 12/03/2015 05:46 PM, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 03:59:52PM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt
> wrote:
>> Aww, too bad. I think it's a missed opportunity to be inclusive
>> and generous with attribution which might motivate people to
>>
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 03:59:52PM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> Aww, too bad. I think it's a missed opportunity to be inclusive and
> generous with attribution which might motivate people to contribute.
> Guix is in a unique position with this opportunity.
Git history is conclusive. There
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> For a while I wondered whether attaching names to packages via the
> ‘maintainers’ field would help people feel responsible, and thus help
> keep packages maintained (but obviously this could only be used once the
> ratio of the number of contributors to th
Andy Wingo skribis:
> On Tue 01 Dec 2015 08:12, Florian Paul Schmidt writes:
>
>> ...and encourage its use. The intended semantics is to list people
>> that have contributed to the packaging effort. The motivation behind
>> this proposal is that in many free software projects attribution can
>>
Ricardo Wurmus skribis:
> With every release the release announcement also includes a list of
> contributors since the last release next to a number of their
> contributions. I think that this is a very public statement of
> appreciation and quite motivating (because of the numbers, so you can
>
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On 12/01/2015 06:35 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> All the contributors do get attribution in the copyright notice at
> the top of each file, although that information is not linked to
> their actual contributions except through git.
If they feel their
Andy Wingo writes:
>> Aww, too bad. I think it's a missed opportunity to be inclusive and
>> generous with attribution which might motivate people to contribute.
>> Guix is in a unique position with this opportunity.
>
> If there are other ways we can recognize people's work, we should
> conside
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On 12/02/2015 05:12 PM, Andy Wingo wrote:
> If there are other ways we can recognize people's work, we should
> consider them :) Think of it this way though, a packager is a
> person who packages. The value is in the verb, not the noun;
> packagi
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On 12/02/2015 05:50 PM, Andreas Enge wrote:
> The problem with attributions is that it is also exclusive of
> others who might contribute to the package otherwise. It can create
> tendencies to "own" packages, which creates a barrier for others to
>
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 03:59:52PM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> Aww, too bad. I think it's a missed opportunity to be inclusive and
> generous with attribution which might motivate people to contribute.
> Guix is in a unique position with this opportunity.
The problem with attributions is
On Wed 02 Dec 2015 14:59, Florian Paul Schmidt writes:
> Aww, too bad. I think it's a missed opportunity to be inclusive and
> generous with attribution which might motivate people to contribute.
> Guix is in a unique position with this opportunity.
If there are other ways we can recognize peopl
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On 12/02/2015 03:09 PM, Thompson, David wrote:
>> The kind of ego-based positive feedback that having a maintainer
>> field would introduce is negative IMO. It is good if people feel
>> attached to Guix-the-project and
>> GuixSD-the-software-distri
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Andy Wingo wrote:
> On Tue 01 Dec 2015 08:12, Florian Paul Schmidt writes:
>
>> ...and encourage its use. The intended semantics is to list people
>> that have contributed to the packaging effort. The motivation behind
>> this proposal is that in many free software
On Tue 01 Dec 2015 08:12, Florian Paul Schmidt writes:
> ...and encourage its use. The intended semantics is to list people
> that have contributed to the packaging effort. The motivation behind
> this proposal is that in many free software projects attribution can
> be a major source of motivati
I should add a disclaimer: take my point of view with a grain of salt. There
are other Guix contributors with a much broader perspective on the project. I'm
still a newbie!
On December 1, 2015 12:35:18 PM EST, Leo Famulari wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:12:12AM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt w
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:12:12AM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> ...and encourage its use. The intended semantics is to list people
> that have contributed to the packaging effort. The motivation behind
> this proposal is that in many free software projects attribution can
> be a major sourc
On 12/01/2015 09:12 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
>
> ...and encourage its use. The intended semantics is to list people
> that have contributed to the packaging effort. The motivation
> behind
[...]
Something like:
diff --git a/guix/packages.scm b/guix/packages.scm
index 68fb091..efe1dbf 10
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...and encourage its use. The intended semantics is to list people
that have contributed to the packaging effort. The motivation behind
this proposal is that in many free software projects attribution can
be a major source of motivation to get peopl
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