On Feb 12, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
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...
What I didn't say is that I find the HallOfFame page restricting as
some people may have contributed more than what is listed there, etc.
I'd love if contributors could themselves add their name and fix the
description. However I'm pretty sure it's not going to happen as
people may not want to add themselves....
Also we start adding people there we'll inevitably forget people.
In any case I invite any contributor not listed there to contact me
directly and I'll add them myselves...
I guess mailing list archives are also some answer as they'll
container everything that happened on XWiki. Only issue is that it's
unstructured data. I don't have any good answer.
-Vincent
BTW, just after typing this email I'll start
adding contributors on
that page and please everyone help me.
Thanks
-Vincent
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