<div dir="ltr">Hi Frank,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Frank Lanitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frank@frank.uvena.de" target="_blank">frank@frank.uvena.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
Currently we have apart of the git list itself two places where we have<br>
added contributors in past, but which look quiet orphaned nowadays:<br>
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The contributors-dialog on Geany->Help:<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/src/about.c" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/geany/<wbr>geany/blob/master/src/about.c</a><br>
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and the THANKS-file inside / of the source tree:<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/THANKS" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/geany/<wbr>geany/blob/master/THANKS</a><br>
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As we got a huge amount of contributors¹ all should get their kudos and<br>
now I'm wondering how we can go on in future with it. There are<br>
contributors for translations, code, documentation, community things<br>
like support, donations (money) etc.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>One possibility (apart from what Lex suggests which is OK too) is to list the names that the AUTHORS file shows:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/AUTHORS">https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/AUTHORS</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>or better the updated version of AUTHORS from #1148:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1148/commits/b40b6ec9dfebcb7dc6911fbca085b46cfa66b43d">https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1148/commits/b40b6ec9dfebcb7dc6911fbca085b46cfa66b43d</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>When you have a look here</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/graphs/contributors">https://github.com/geany/geany/graphs/contributors</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>the number of regularly code-contributing developers is quite small - I'd say it's just the first 9 plus Eugene who contributed a lot in the pre-git era (maybe there's someone else missing from that time - Enrico could know better). When you have a look at the rest of the contributor's commits, they are either 1-feature-related (e.g. SiegeLord's Rust parser), or translators.</div><div><br></div><div>So I think listing these people explicitly plus "thanks to all other contributors" could be enough. If someone else starts contributing regularly, he can be added but this doesn't happen so often to be a maintenance problem.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Cheers,<br>
Frank<br>
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¹ Openhub <a href="https://www.openhub.net/p/geany" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openhub.net/p/<wbr>geany</a> says we have 42 (hihi)<br>
contributors last year -- not counting po updates where I committed the<br>
po files myself.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think these actually are po updates mostly - even though you commit them, git shows the author of the patch, not the committer and there definitely weren't Geany code patches merged from 42 different people last year.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Jiri</div></div></div></div>