[Bf-committers] Visibility of attribution

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Campbell,

Sure, proper crediting of our contributors is always cool!
Let's do this as you propose for now, and investigate other methods  
later.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 31 Aug, 2011, at 7:59, Campbell Barton wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Alex Fraser <adfries at vpac.org> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Alex Fraser" <adfries at vpac.org>
>>>
>>> For now it might be easiest to add all the 2.5x credits pages to the
>>> page mentioned above. But as suggested by Campbell, we could move  
>>> to a
>>> more scalable format that shows each developer and the number of
>>> commits they have made, like this:
>>>
>>> http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/credits/
>>
>> ... except that it would be great if we could show companies that  
>> sponsor development there too. In my case, I would be happy for the  
>> commits I make on behalf of a client be listed as a commit by that  
>> company, rather than by me.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>
> Credits link from splash seems reasonable, or link from help menu, or
> prominent link from download page - I'm not that fussed as long as its
> not getting in the way too much.
>
> As for how to maintain this list - I doubt maintaining by hand will
> work, developers already don't add themselves to the `Contributors`
> section in the header much, so if this page is only to allow people to
> add themselves who like being credited - then I suppose it serves that
> purpose but wont end up crediting people who don't make the effort to
> add themselves there.
>
> Mostly I see this as being an extra wiki document to maintain, we
> already barely manage to keep lists of module owners, changelogs,
> release logs, py api changelogs, regression files.... etc. Up to date,
> so I'd be surprised if this page ends up being properly maintained.
>
>
> So I'll propose to parse svn logs, do some basic regex to get patch
> numbers and find the patch author names so we credit them too. The
> script can have some hard coded remappings to credit companies rather
> than the committers - think this wont be too hard to manage.
> If Ton's ok with it, I can look into this, think its only a few hrs  
> work.
>
> --
> - Campbell
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