Re: [xwiki-devs] [Vote] Showcase contributors in the Release Notes

On 30 Jun 2016, at 18:40, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: Hi Caty, > On 30 Jun 2016, at 18:32, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <valicac(a)gmail.com>

> > Hi, > > Since May 2015 we added in the Release Plan Help a step that collects

> list of code contributors of a release and lists them in the

> mail. > > IMO this is a nice way to acknowledge and thank people that are > contributing to XWiki. > > I want to propose that we add this contributors list in the Release

> Release Notes are accessible when someone wants to downloads XWiki and

> are also referenced as documentation when we close issues, while the > mailinglist are read just by the people that are subscribed. > > This visibility increase will be beneficial to thank participants and

> maybe motivate other users to join the development. > > We could have this listing both in the Release Notes and the

> Mail, but I believe it's sufficient in the Release Notes (let me know if > you disagree). > > This change would imply: > - Change in the Release Plan to add this step > - Change in the Release Plan Help to document the process > - Change the Release Notes Template to add the Contributors section > > The Release Manager would compute the code contributors, but additional > people could add themselves in case they contributed translations or > performed tests (which usually happen after the release, so it's hard to > put this responsibility on the shoulders of the RM). Let me know if you > want the contributions to be exclusive to code contributions. Also

Big +1, it’s nicer to have the acks in the RNs.

Thanks -Vincent > Thanks, > Caty