RE: [PHP-DOC] list of contributors [rethought]

-----Original Message----- From: Steph [mailto:sfox@php.net] Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 1:09 PM To: Gabor Hojtsy; phpdoc@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] list of contributors [rethought] > 5. We should have a long list on a 'credits page', (4) implies this. > But do we need a main authors list as the GTK manual has one for > example? You keep talking about the GTK manual, and I'm still sitting here wondering what to do about our own contributors :) You seem to have found a good solution, but I keep thinking about the main PHP commit stats and whether there's any way you could run your own 'top 10 on the front page' out of a docs equivalent held in a database somewhere.. it'd be eternally changing, but would give everybody an equal opportunity to shine ;) ------- Amen. I'd contribute to the PHP manual a lot more if I knew that every contribution meant that I would get listed higher on the list. I say: start by listing everyone who is on the PHP-DOC team that has had more than, say, 5 commits (some arbitrarily low number, but more than one.) List them in order of the number of commits they have had. Then put the top 5 or 10 on the front page, along with a short list of the leaders of the PHP-DOC team. I think this is a great way to encourage participation, and it will make the manual an even nicer part of PHP. Of course, you would have to watch out for spurious one-line commits, but I think we're all pretty mature here. Erica Douglass Lead Web Developer Simpli, Inc.