[Geany-Devel] Future of THANKS/contributors list inside help dialog

[Lex Trotman]

On 10 March 2017 at 07:14, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On 09/03/17 14:56, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently we have apart of the git list itself two places where we have
>> added contributors in past, but which look quiet orphaned nowadays:
>>
>> The contributors-dialog on Geany->Help:
>>
>> https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/src/about.c
>>
>> and the THANKS-file inside / of the source tree:
>>
>> https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/THANKS
>>
>> As we got a huge amount of contributors¹ all should get their kudos and
>> now I'm wondering how we can go on in future with it. There are
>> contributors for translations, code, documentation, community things
>> like support, donations (money) etc.
>
> My two cents:
> remove the translators and contributors lists from the About dialog and
> replace the lists by a link to the THANKS file on Github and add a note
> to find the THANKS file in the source distribution.
>
> Then keep the THANKS file up to date by generating it from GIT history,
> maybe with excluding our own names (feels weird to thank yourself :D).

Consider it thanks from the rest of us.

> And, as Jiri said, keep a few names manually maintained like those who
> didn't contributed code/translations directly via GIT or in pre-GIT times.

And non-git like bug reporters and feature suggesters, and testers and
packagers and ...

Cheers
Lex

>
>
> This way we would have one place where contributors are listed for their
> kudos and the maintenance burden is hopefully low enough.
>
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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