Hmm, isn't it better to credit the major authors per page/section? It seems somewhat arbitrary to say "the most commits in the last year gets you on the front page". What if your contributions are good enough to remain the same over several years; does your name drift out of the manual? What if you're the author of a popular section of the manual, but never touched anything else? What of people that make large contributions to a small section? Are they fairly represented?
To me, it seems fairest to credit authors per page, and have a complete list of all contributors (no matter how small) in the front (or the back; there are nearly 300 people in your list). If you must, you can list those in descending order of "commit counts", but alphabetical seems fair to me. --Wez. On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:37:52 +0000, Gabor Hojtsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://goba.hu/commiters.html (beware 376 Kbyte html file!) > > Additionaly to this, here is the data of how many commits people had in > the last half year (since january 1 actually) (with only those CVS > accounts who had at least one commit). > > I propose we put a line above baoengb and add the people above it to the > frontpage authors list (this is nearly the same as the magic 100 mark we > use). I exclude baoengb here, because I know he achieved this high > commit number mostly by adding translated stuff to the EN tree, and then > reverting (multiple times AFAIR). Others are mostly respected people > here AFAIK, and they deserve to be listed as top authors. Dave is > someone to think about a bit, as he mostly achieved a top commiter > rating by mass fixing small mistakes (html->HTML, php->PHP, PHP3->PHP 3, > and such). > > Still I keep suggesting that the historical author list should contain > people above the 100 commit mark from the list presented at the URL > above (with a bit of human correction if needed). > > Funny that I am just above the line :)) > > OK, now provide your suggestions! > > +---------------+------+ > | didou | 1291 | - Mehdi Achour > | nlopess | 573 | - Nuno Lopes > | georg | 245 | - Georg Richter > | betz | 244 | - Friedhelm Betz > | tony2001 | 243 | - Antony Dovgal > | dave | 233 | - Dave (? - mostly done search&replace) > | vrana | 219 | - Jakub Vrana > | dams | 194 | - Damien Seguy > | irchtml | 189 | - Kenneth Schwartz > | goba | 172 | - Gabor Hojtsy > > +===============+======+ (suggested crediting mark) > > | baoengb | 106 | > | wez | 64 | > | derick | 58 | > | moriyoshi | 44 | > | mg | 41 | > | pollita | 37 | > | progcom | 34 | > | vincent | 31 | > | kennyt | 28 | > | et | 26 | > | yannick | 21 | > | philip | 19 | > | derek | 18 | > | hholzgra | 14 | > | sean | 13 | > | dickmeiss | 11 | > | ali | 8 | > | abies | 6 | > | jan | 5 | > | thetaphi | 4 | > | samesch | 4 | > | helly | 4 | > | gui | 4 | > | vlad | 4 | > | curt | 3 | > | mj | 3 | > | stas | 3 | > | cucinato | 3 | > | andrei | 3 | > | alindeman | 3 | > | jdonagher | 2 | > | hirokawa | 2 | > | joey | 2 | > | leszek | 2 | > | conni | 1 | > | poz | 1 | > | ae | 1 | > | rasmus | 1 | > | amt | 1 | > | hakan | 1 | > | rioter | 1 | > | nathan | 1 | > | jsjohnst | 1 | > | cece | 1 | > | sp | 1 | > +---------------+------+ >
