On Aug 23, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Robert Muir wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to suggest that we slightly alter the format of CHANGES.txt. > Most important I think is to add the names of non-committers who contribute > any patches, JIRA comments, reports of bugs on the user list, etc to the > issue. > > This is how the CHANGES.txt is formulated for Lucene and Solr and I think it > encourages contributors to come back, because they get some credit for their > contributions. > > Any thoughts? I think it would be really good to add all contributors to any > jira issues before the first release especially.
+1. We definitely should be giving credit to those who help.