[Bf-committers] Credits Page

[Howard Trickey]

It appears that arguments will continue over the best way to make
a system whereby contributions can automatically be deduced,
and in all likelihood, such automatic extraction will never be 100% correct.

It feels like there are two desires from developers for such a credits page:
1) some acknowledgment at all that a developer has contributed code
to Blender
2) among top contributors, some indication of the volume of contribution.

In terms of numbers, I would guess most developers care about 1 first,
and 2 second.  So what is wrong with Harley's idea of a static list of
developers
on the credits page? Such a list will only grow over time, and can be added
to on request or by editing a wiki page or something.

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The only way to make `arc patch` to get proper authorship is to force
> everyone to use arc for submitting the reports. Now, if you force everyone
> to fill in proper name and "Public Email", getting this info for those who
> don't use git would be matter of single click on their nick. Setting this
> up is like 2min in the phabricator and some time updating the instructions.
>
> Further, with two clicks max you get list of the commits associated with
> the user. The only thing here is that you wouldn't see email directly in
> there and for now you'll need to consult local git for the email. We could
> agree that showing email is not that bad in there, it's visible on
> corresponding git.blender.org page anyway.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I don't remember having issues checking for the author name in the
> past.
> > Is
> > > it something you did experience a lot or it's something you're
> > > exaggerating?
> >
> > For both the git migration and credits generator I ran into quite a
> > few issues getting names right, its possible the percentage of
> > problems is low enough, as to not worry, I just recall there being
> > more errors then I expected, and it wasn't trivial to get all names
> > correctly listed.
> >
> > > I'm still unconvinced asking for some details or greping log
> > > would give any slowdown in your review pipeline. It easily fits into
> the
> > > time spending on the blender compilation.
> >
> > Not sure, for me the current `arc patch D123`, review & commit is
> > pretty nice. Having to search for some snippet of data (which might
> > not exist), is an annoying extra step.
> >
> > If we could maintain some (`username` --> `author <mail>`) mapping,
> > I'd not mind so much.
> >
> > > As a way around which wouldn't violate any privacy, we can add "EMail
> > > address used for git logs" customfield in the user profile and
> _require_
> > > having proper user name and this address to be filled in when
> submitting
> > > the patches.
> > >
> > > And seriously, if you think the email takes too much time to figure
> out,
> > > just use the empty one. I don't see any drawbacks with that, would just
> > > mean phab wouldn't link those commits to the phab user (which is
> already
> > > how it behaves when someone else commits the patch).
> > >
> > > So really, is just me who don't see any _real_ issues what's so ever?
> >
> > To me this is like conventions for commit logs, its some extra step to
> > get right, and nothing especially hard, yet it adds some overhead &
> > we'll manage to mess, its prone human-error.
> >
> >
> > > --
> > > With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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