On 21 July 2011 12:07, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnus...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
Yep. That's why Wikipedia had to get the GFDL changed to allow them to convert to CC — it was the only feasible way of doing it, since they couldn't contact all their contributors. It is a pain. >>> 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 wouldn't even try to. They're not that big a percentage of our commits. > 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. How's this going to integrate with the online doc editor? Adam
