Hi Sebastian, I suppose whatever people feel is not too much overhead seems reasonable. In Flume, we auto-generate the release changelog from JIRA.
Regards, Mike On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Sebastian Schelter <s...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > >
