I'm going to assume lazy consensus on the general points of this proposal as its been a few days now since I originally posted it. I will try to document the general aspects of what was presented here in the dev docs and will post back here when I've done so. I think we can take this discussion in two separate directions at this point one for the release notes changes and one for the web site (probably new email threads i guess). I don't think we need to try to force any of this in for the current release that we're dealing with. In fact I'll probably make the dev doc changes in a branch so that they don't go in as part of this release.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 11:59 AM Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com> wrote: > There has been some discussion within the PMC over the last month or so > about how to recognize the various contributors to Apache TinkerPop. We > currently have this: > > http://tinkerpop.apache.org/#committers > > but we think some changes should occur. First, we would like to better > recognize the list of folks who contributed during a particular release > period to include: > > 1. git contributions for a release will be aggregated and presented in the > release notes. > 2. non-code contributions to a release will be added and presented in the > release notes. > > I don't know if "release notes" means CHANGELOG or Upgrade Docs or > something else - I suppose that remains up for discussion. The issue is > more about capturing these contributions better on a per-release basis. > > Second, we expect to modify the website in that space given in the link > above - rather than have it read "Apache TinkerPop Committers" it will > instead be "Apache TinkerPop Contributors" and it will include both > official committers as well as "Friends of the TinkerPop" (working > title...suggest something better??). > > For the committers section, individuals can keep this information up to > date themselves (because they have access to the git repository), but we > will ask for a bio update from each person every 6 months via email with a > request to indicate an "active" or "inactive" status. If you are "inactive" > it simply means that you aren't currently participating in the project. > Irrespective of being active or inactive, your name and tenure > accomplishments remain present on the front page of the web site. Being > "inactive" does not affect your status as an Apache committer/PMC member - > that remains unchanged. Should you decide that you are inactive at some > point, note that there is no special process to become "active" again - you > just have to update your bio to do so. The format of the committer section > would be basically the same as it is now but would have active and inactive > sections, sorted by date of TinkerPop commitership (or membership in the > pre-Apache days), as they are now. > > The new "Friends of the TinkerPop" section will be a listing of those > people who have promoted the project in some positive capacity (e.g. > developed a third-party library that has some good benefit to the > community) but aren't committers/pmc members. > > There's still a fair bit to sort out in terms of how this will be > implemented, but these are the general big picture items. Please let us > know what you think and then we can drive into details. > > > > > . >
