On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitch...@kde.org> wrote: > On 09/24/2012 09:51, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> >> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Bart Cerneels >> <bart.cerne...@kde.org> wrote: >>> >>> The currently active Amarok team has defined the authors list to >>> contain current contributors that have ownership (written it or >>> maintaining it for a while) of amarok components or non-coding >>> contributions to the project. As far as I can tell there is no legal >>> reason to list all past contributors as authors. >>> Myriam pushed a commit reflecting what we thought was the current >>> state of that list yesterday. A few people don't seem to agree and >>> reverted their own entries. >> >> >> At the time of the discussion, I asked if we were moving >> no-longer-active authors to a "previous author" category or similar, >> and was assured that this was what was being done. After examining the >> diff, I see that that is *not* true, and the former authors have been >> moved into Contributors. >> >> This seems disrespectful to me, and not in the spirit of teamwork that >> we want to foster. Legalities? I believe those are satisfied by >> headers. Our About dialog is about community, not legality. I very >> much hope we can respectfully honor the work of major contributors in >> the past, and not move them into the same bin in which we place those >> who have contributed a few euros or a couple of patches. > > > I agree with the sentiment, although I should mention that in the past we've > moved previous authors to contributors...but for lack of a better solution. >
So what compromise do we execute? I would rename the "Thanks To" tab to Contributors and add proper attribution as author (with years of service) to the appropriate people. Bart _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel