[DISCUSS] Attribution for KOYA (SLIDER-977)

[Josh Elser]

Hi,

Thomas brought up the question that he found it unexpected that I had 
squashed the pull request instead of retaining the original commits. 
(Read up on SLIDER-977 to avoid me putting incorrect words in his mouth)

I had done this because it was 44 commits originally spanning a time 
frame of over one year.

I don't think we've had a discuss on our guidelines for contributor 
attribution.

Should we have direct commit-by-commit attribution for changes or should 
we try to target squashed commits (one commit per JIRA issue)?

What about the Git "author": should it be one of the committers, the 
contributor, the contributor with the committer signed-off'ing, or the 
committer with a mention of the contributor in the commit message?

Thoughts?

- Josh