On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 20:14, Adam Harvey <ahar...@php.net> wrote: > On 21 July 2011 07:15, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A (short) list of "authors" or a "group" needs to exist due to licensing >> issues. >> How to generate that one I've no idea. > > Are you sure about that? I think you'll find that copyright is held by > all contributors individually, so it's actually more accurate to point > to the entire list for licensing purposes.
That would mean we would need the approval of every single person in that gigantic list to change the license. It was hard enough to track down and contact the less-then-10 people lasttime > >> I would like a "NEWS"/"ChangeLog" listing, similar to what php-src does. >> That would serve the dual purpose of improving crediting of people >> actually working on the docs on daily basis, and letting the user know >> what is new within the docs (so he can pay attention to modifications >> to his favorite doc page), and bugfixes etc etc. > > It would be nice. We should be able to auto-generate something, > really, based on commits. I don't like the idea of autogenerating such list. The black list would be painful to manage (i.e. how would remove WS commits and random weirdness?) I'm sure it will take few weeks to get used to update a "NEWS" file on every bugfix/new additions, and drive-by-committers will probably not to do.. but in the longterm I still think its a better option. We could then manually rotate the list every once in a while, or even create a rule in PhD to only list the last "100 entries" or whatever. -Hannes
