Hey, On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:24 -0800, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > So, what can we do to start recognizing more people more consistently? > And what is a reasonable list of items to recognize? Code for sure, but > we have other community members participating within > communities/projects, running user groups, going to conferences, helping > with booth duty when Sun has a big presence someplace, creating > distributions, blogging, talking to reporters and analysts, answering > questions on lists, taking pictures, making videos, writing docs, > building mirrors, working on co-development and governance plans, etc.
So, from a development point of view, I was somewhat surprised, having never really looked at the ON code before, that there's no recognition of people who wrote the code in the source files. Sure, there's probably some Teamware logs, but that doesn't feel as public as something like a ChangeLog [1] or author credits in the source code headers. As to how to recognize other contributions, that's generally a much harder thing to do - we're a community, and we're all in this together. Any one person is as important as the next one. While the occasional token of some free swag is a nice gesture for significant contributions, I don't think there needs to be a formal process. We just need to be better about praising each other on blogs/mailing lists/forums etc. It's an amazing feeling getting a mail out of the blue saying 'Wow, thanks - that patch/contribution you did really rocked', and that is really one of the cornerstones of creating a fun, thriving open source community IMHO. Glynn [1] http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/ChangeLog for an example _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
