Re: Authors List, Contributor Resume

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

Last I heard the discussion on the authors list for the PHP manual distilled down to contributors submitting a "resume" of involvement in the documentation project. To that end I've got a merge of a scan though CVS and my own memory below including links to diffs and/or compiled documentation as appropriate and available. http://frankenbox.alphaweb.net/php-resume.html

Hm, I must say that this is an impressive list ;) Still some of the items are very small changes, and the others are much bigger ones [or changes with a higher impact on the docs]. I think the next time this contributor crediting question comes up [probably after Linuxtag] you should send this in again. We will have some discussion on the topic at Linuxtag, it would probably help to finally settle on a method, and start adding contributors.

Sorry, I didn't follow this discussion completely (have 1.600 unread posts:), but I think this kind of "application" shouldn't be necessary at all. We all know who contributes regularly, so I think making such a list is pure waste of time which could be used more productive. IF you want to call it "Contributor list", then all the people who contribute regularly should be mentioned there (and Sara does this since an amount of time, where it doesn't seem that she will stop it soon, so she should be mentioned IMO). So far my 2 cents, Thomas