I agree that we are still in need of a better way to track individual contributions (committers and contributors). The "project team" page is certainly not the long term answer, but I think we should stick with it for now. This will ensure that people's contributions are not ignored and that we don't upset anyone.
My impression was that a "real solution" was under discussion by the PMC, but I don't know if anything ever happened there.
As you mention, I think just adding people to the "project team" page will suffice for the time being.
Mike
Kalnichevski, Oleg wrote:
On a related note, Oleg, are you also working on updating the list of
contributors? If not, I will take a look at it.
Mike,
I found this to be quite a touchy issue. I have been thinking whether there's an acceptable way to inject a little more structure into the standard Maven generated contributors page. In particular I'd like to be able to mark inactive contributors as, well, inactive ones and retired committers as retired ones to give a little more prominence to the active ones. I was unable so far to come up with any idea how this could be accomplished without taking a risk of upsetting some folks and provoking some tensions on the mailing list. I have been thinking about some sort 'HttpClient history' page which would contain chronological account of important events including credits for notable personal contributions, leaving the project team to reflect _current_ _active_ participation in the project. However, for the Lord's sake no way do I want to provoke no trouble between HttpClient contributors and committers thus causing more harm than good with my innovation. In my thoughts I was gradually gravitating towards not messing around the 'project team' page and simply appending new entries to the existing list when you caught me with your question ;-)
If there are no better ideas how to deal with the issue, I'll add the new entrants to the existing list and get it over with
Oleg
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Becke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:41 To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: Re: Release notes update. Please review
Wow, has it been a year already? It seems hard to believe.
Oleg, nice work on compiling the list of changes. This is no small
task.
On a related note, Oleg, are you also working on updating the list of
contributors? If not, I will take a look at it.
Thanks,
Mike
On May 2, 2004, at 6:08 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote:
Folks, I just updated the release notes doc to include personal contributions made to HttpClient CVS HEAD since 2.0 was branched out (approx a year from now)
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/httpclient/
release_notes.txt?rev=1.19&view=markup
If you have contributed code or design ideas during that period, please review the release notes to make sure your contribution is mentioned.
If certain contributions are not mentioned, it does not necessarily
mean that they do not deserve mentioning. Going through several hundreds of commit messages is tedious, not great fun, and very prone to mistakes.
I may well have overlooked quite a few things
It is important that we keep this document up to date, as one day is
may become the only (easily accessible) vehicle of communicating individual contributions. @author tags may have to be removed, if so decides the Jakarta PMC
So, no need to be shy. If there's anything omitted, please do let me know
Oleg
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