Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Extend the ack section of the Release Notes

On 6 Feb 2017, at 10:39, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote: +1 for adding any source of contributions as long as it's automated or close to automated (like executing one command/request and copy/pasting the result)

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea <mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > +1 > > Thanks, > Marius > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> Right now we’ve started acknowledging the committers in the Release notes. >> >> I’d like to propose to extend that try to ack everyone who participates in >> one way or another to a release, and not just developers. >> >> I can think of 3 more items to add: >> >> A) All the JIRA issue reporters that have had an issue fixed for the >> release (bug, improvement, new feature, etc). They took the time to report >> an issue and thus they’ve helped the committers to improve the quality of >> the release and thus they should be acknowledged. This allows us to also >> ack QA. We could decide to exclude the reporters who’ve also been >> committers or leave them in. >> >> B) The people who’ve contributed translations done after the start of the >> release development. >> >> Ideally we would also ack: >> >> C) The people who’ve helped on the list for the release >> D) The people who’ve helped on the Design and made proposals that made it >> to the release. I’m thinking of Caty for example. Luckily Caty also commits >> some code and often she’s recognised through commits. >> >> The problem with C) and D) is that they’re hard to gather. But we could do >> it on an ad-hoc basis by adding them to the RN during the development (when >> they help) instead of doing it at the end. >> >> In any case I’d like to focus on A) and B) FTM and I’m proposing to add >> them to the Release Plan since they’re easy to find out. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> -- Thomas Mortagne