Hi Mike, > Regarding attribution, I saw it mentioned elsewhere in this thread and I > noticed it myself so I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. While it seems like > a small thing, I wonder whether instituting the Hadoopish "Contributed by > so-and-so" in commit messages to assign credit for patches by > non-committers would be help make contributors feel more appreciated for > their work. Especially if you want to encourage people to contribute lots > of small patches on their way to committership. Alternatively, putting > "(Joe Newbie via Jim Veteran)" into every commit also acknowledges the > committer/reviewer, which is not an easy job and can help people feel > appreciated for that work as well.
Giraph has a changelog file [1] that mentions the committer and contributor for each commit. Do you think introducing such a file would be a way to provide the desired attribution? Best, Sebastian [1] https://github.com/apache/giraph/blob/trunk/CHANGELOG
