You're right. I think there's a lot of inconsistency here. So, why not keep it VERY simple?
1. Wipe the team page clean. 2. Add a paragraph with a alphabetically sorted, comma-separated list of names of contributors (without mail addresses, includes committers). The listing would be regardless of the amount of work on FOP. If need be, the committers in bold. 3. Add a link to http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#xmlgraphics-fop (which, unfortunately, doesn't contain the list of committers before the move from CVS to SVN). 4. Possibly restore the note about FOP's founder. No more active or inactive contributors/committers (is he still active? is he not?...). Every committer makes sure that the names of contributors make it to the contributor list. We know who the candidates for committership are from our daily work. I think that would increase fairness and maintainability of the team list. And it allows to remove all author tags and comments in a fair way. If any committer thinks that the amount of recognition for the project is important, we can always add a link to the Ohloh page of FOP which does a much better job at telling who contributed how much and when. That an idea? On 14.09.2011 12:12:25 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > On 14/09/11 07:54, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > +1 in general on removing author tags (it's a board recommendation after > > all). But strong -1 on removing them without adding them to some central > > list of contributors. > > Makes sense, although theres something Im not too sure about. > > Those of the contributors who were committers are already listed in the > websites team page. Regarding the other ones, we could add a Past > Contributors section to that page. > > However, current contributors who submit a patch on a one-off basis, > therefore will never become committers, will never have their names > appear in that section. > > Also, people listed in Active Contributors who become inactive have > had their names simply removed from the list so far. > > In light of this, it seems inconsistent to me to list on that page > people who contributed code such a long time ago, and by this make their > names more visible than those of more recent contributors. > > WDYT? > > Vincent > > > > On 12.09.2011 16:27:26 vhennebert wrote: > >> Author: vhennebert > >> Date: Mon Sep 12 14:27:25 2011 > >> New Revision: 1169766 > >> > >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1169766&view=rev > >> Log: > >> Bugzilla #51790: source file contains non-ascii character > >> Removed @author tags > >> > >> Modified: > >> > >> xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/render/rtf/RTFHandler.java > >> > >> Modified: > >> xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/render/rtf/RTFHandler.java > >> URL: > >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/render/rtf/RTFHandler.java?rev=1169766&r1=1169765&r2=1169766&view=diff > >> ============================================================================== > >> --- > >> xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/render/rtf/RTFHandler.java > >> (original) > >> +++ > >> xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/render/rtf/RTFHandler.java > >> Mon Sep 12 14:27:25 2011 > >> @@ -132,12 +132,6 @@ import org.apache.fop.render.rtf.rtflib. > >> /** > >> * RTF Handler: generates RTF output using the structure events from > >> * the FO Tree sent to this structure handler. > >> - * > >> - * @author Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> > >> - * @author Trembicki-Guy, Ed <[email protected]> > >> - * @author Boris Poudérous <[email protected]> > >> - * @author Peter Herweg <[email protected]> > >> - * @author Andreas Putz <[email protected]> > >> */ > >> public class RTFHandler extends FOEventHandler { > >> > > > > > > > > Jeremias Maerki > > Jeremias Maerki
