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

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 14:13, Erica Douglass wrote: > -----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. The bug database did something similar at one stage with bug closers. I don't think a commit count, however, is an accurate idea of how much a person contributed, nor is it something I really want to see in the manual -- it's not really a contest! I think that recognizing people who need to be recognized (see Goba's original post) is enough. We don't need to have some sort of 'Top 10 Committers' list, IMHO. -- Andrew Lindeman <alindeman@php.net>