I have no problem with this. Just one thing: what is the criteria for a contributor's name being listed? I mean, how many lines of code? :)
I had this question because your proposal reminds me about those who submitted patches that never got committed, and those who asked/answered good questions but never submitted any code. Thanks, xiaofeng On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Mark Hindess<mark.hind...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Seeing the @author tag in Charles/Regis recent commit reminded me that I > had been thinking about how we recognise contributors to Harmony. > > Currently we have a "Who we are" page at: > > http://harmony.apache.org/contributors.html > > which lists ~40 committers. However, we have >260 ACQs. While some > of those haven't committed any code (yet? ;-) most have and I wonder > if we should list their names on the contributors page? > > I think I could figure out who has contributed code for most of the > current ACQ submitters without a huge amount of effort[0] and I think > there are enough people currently active to point out anyone I miss. > > There is little point expending any effort doing this for the current > point in time unless committers are happy to keep it up to date > by fixing the website when they commit a contribution from a new > contributor. What do committers think about this? > > Regards, > Mark. > > [0] It might prove useful to check for contributions for which we > have no ACQs while doing this. > > > -- http://people.apache.org/~xli
