On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:28, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Jun 18, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> As was noted, we now have a basic web site set up for the project: >> >> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ >> >> I'd like to draw attention to the "Some of our contributors" page in >> particular: >> >> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html >> >> From what I can tell, the intent of this page is to acknowledge contributors >> to the project. And my sense was that this meant more than just committers. >> >> I added my own name, based on my contribution to getting the initial web >> site started. But I think this is probably worth having a discussion on, >> especially since others, whose name has not been added, have also made >> recent contributions. >> >> Question: How should this page be managed? Is there an Apache requirement >> for how this is handled? Or does each project set its own rules? If the >> later, what rules do we want? Do we want this to be comprehensive? Or >> highlight only the "top contributors", by some definition. >> >> Personally, I'd favor acknowledging many, rather than few. > > Most projects (all?) have a roster of the PMC and committers. > > http://tomcat.apache.org/whoweare.html > http://poi.apache.org/who.html > http://pdfbox.apache.org/team-list.html > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/team.html > http://httpd.apache.org/contributors/ > > The HTTPD Server project has Major Contributors as well with a big thank you > to Rob McCool. > > I really think that the OOo should follow a pattern like these. The HTTPD > roster includes greater detail. This might be good.
Ha!! That thing is *soooooo* out of date, it isn't even funny. In short, it is totally unmaintained. I dunno that you want to use that as a reference :-P To answer Rob's question: it is an issue for each project to decide. Apache Subversion doesn't have a "people" page. We consider it a team thing, rather than about individuals. People get their recognition via commit logs :-P ... Is the project about doing great work, or about getting your name in lights? Cheers, -g
