So, allow users to opt out of the "inactive" page. Would that solve the problem?
Or better word it so that it does not indicate that the listed people are *completely* inactive currently.
Just remove this whole section.
s/section/pthrase I mean
Especially this part looks bad: Authors and Editors
Although not active currently, the following contributors made a big impact with adding content to the manual previously:
Well, once again I am not much proficient in politics, and all this crediting stuff evolves around politics. Since noone else took up the job of crediting current contributors, someone needed to do so. Since I am not a native English speaker, I might have used wording which is offensive. The points I tried to summarise into the short sentences on the contributions page are:
- those listed on the frontpage are definitely *not the only*
valuable people, but those who are currently *most active* - those listed on the frontpage plus those listed on the
contributors page are *still not the only* valuable
people, but those, who have been the most busy people
around phpdoc still its beginning - there are still more people who we not list, but provided
valuable stuff (heck, even the unnamed manual user note
submitters are thanked for their work!)I mean that we look positively on all the people we have listed, and we even look positively on those people who have not been possible to include in those lists. Just for the manual to be accurate and actual, we need to have active people who fix bugs, add new function documentations, etc. And PHP being actively developed and bugfixed, and outdated - albeit proficiently written - documentation does not help users much, we need people to be *active*. We need lots of activity, since we have a lot of tasks to do. Those listed on the frontpage are the most active, although the actives are not limited to those.
I would appreciate if someone with better English skills would reword those entities, so they fit into the positive image the whole crediting is supposed to be under.
BTW there are some people getting active very recently, like Sean Coates or Dave Barr, although they have no such problem as being listed as 'inactives', since they have not contributed such an invaluable amount of value to the manual like you Sara (which entitled you to be listed).
Goba
