On Tue, April 8, 2008 9:30 am, Martin Gilday wrote: > How do you decide if the dontated feature is large enough to warrant > creditation?
All of my open-source projects run under the idea that *every* contribution of *any* size should be acknowledged. Each of them (JWP and DataVision for example) include a list of contributors somewhere (JWP has a separate contributors file: http://javawebparts.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/javawebparts/trunk/javawebparts/contributors.txt?view=markup while DataVision has it as part of it's changelog: http://datavision.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/datavision/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup as well as the Credits section of the web site and documentation) in which we say what they contributed and simply say thanks. Even if they just point something out that a committer later addresses, i.e., they don't contribute code or documentation something "concrete", they still deserve a mention IMO. (I don't know what project Don was referring to originally, but all the ones I run have this basic philosophy as he described) > Do you take it away once the feature has changed substantially over > time? IMO, no. You just keep building up the list forever. I don't see how you do otherwise. Just because the code someone contributed is no longer in use doesn't mean acknolwedgement of their involvement should be taken away. They still took the time to contribute in some fashion and therefore deserve to be listed as long as the project continues. Frank -- Frank W. Zammetti Author of "Practical DWR 2 Projects" and "JavaScript, DOM Scripting and Ajax Projects" and "Practical Ajax Projects With Java Technology" for info: apress.com/book/search?searchterm=zammetti&act=search Java Web Parts - javawebparts.sourceforge.net Supplying the wheel, so you don't have to reinvent it! My "look ma, I have a blog too!" blog: zammetti.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
