Nowadays Github allows you to fetch that info very easily, I think it's a leftover from the past where the task proved to be harder.
On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 22:09, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: > I lead towards allowing people to use github if they want to know who > contributed what. Simple is better. > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:25 AM Vladimir Sitnikov < > sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I incline to "The following people contributed to this release" > > For instance, I like the way Gradle release notes are written: > > https://docs.gradle.org/7.2/release-notes.html > > > > The trick is that the author name does not convey the URL, so either we > use > > just names or we keep a contributor database. > > > > Vladimir > > >
