Hi, I would like to see such a kind of file.
Additionally, I'm wondering whether it would be feasible to have a contribution file per release? So that one can see for each release who has contributed to that. Or is such a contribution list already part of a release at Apache? Best, - Fabian 2011/7/7 Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Adding a CREDITS.txt file at the top of our codebase, following the > Cocoon example [1], would IMO be a nice way of giving credit to people > working on Stanbol, for those who want that. > > The idea is to document the history of people's contributions, things like > > The entityHub code was originally designed and written by Rupert Westenthaler > as part of his work at Salzburg Research, partially funded by the > IKS project. > > Based on true facts, so no subjective statements like > > Bob Sponge, Bill Topay and Leo Davinci are the core developers of Stanbol. > > We wouldn't list every single patch in there, the idea is to document > how specific blocks of functionality came to existence. More details > are available on http://s.apache.org/stanbol_svnsearch and similar > services. > > WDYT? > > -Bertrand > > [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/branches/BRANCH_2_1_X/CREDITS.txt > -- Fabian
