Re: [xwiki-dev] Recognizing XWiki contributors

Hi everyone, I'd really like that everyone who's ever contributed to XWiki (whether at the code level, whether at the documentation, whether at answering the mailing list level, etc) is recognized for the work they've done. Right now we're doing this very badly and we need to change. For committers, I think the solution is relatively easy as there are SCM logs and once we have Fisheye set up we'll be able to easily make that visible. Also there are site like http:// www.ohloh.net/projects/68 (even though the stats are wrong but that's another story ;-)) that make this information visible. This is not the case for contributors. For another project I'm working on (Cargo) we have a Credits page: http://cargo.codehaus.org/Credits. However even that is not perfect as sometimes I forget to add someone and it's hard to ensure it's done consistently. For XWiki, I had started this page http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/ view/Community/HallOfFame However, the contributors section is currently empty even though we have had lots of contributors and even today we have people like Brandon, Melv, Catalin, Pablo, Gilles, Marc and lots of others. That's bad, very bad as we need to make it as rewarding as possible for people to contribute to XWiki. Naturally some contributors can become committers but that's not always happening of course as contributors may not have the bandwidth to commit more. So I'm asking here to everyone: What should we do? What would contributors find nice to have? I thought if everyone helped filled http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/ view/Community/HallOfFame it could work but that remains to be proved...

BTW, just after typing this email I'll start adding contributors on that page and please everyone help me. Thanks -Vincent