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

+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 > >