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

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Sun Mar 12 10:59:04 UTC 2017


On 10/03/17 01:01, Lex Trotman wrote:
> 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.

[...]

>> 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 ...

Yes, absolutely.
We could fill the THANKS file from GIT history, merged PRs, closed
issues and so get already many people to credit.
Furthermore, we still need to manually maintain a list of people who
contributed in at least one of the following ways:
- mailing list (patches, requests, ideas, discussions, ...)
- old pre-GIT contributions
- any other input we received and want to credit which is not visible on
Github

I think the overhead of the manual editing is not that high and with
auto-generating the majority of the list we can ensure to not easily
forget someone.

Of course, the list is getting huge then but IMO that's better than not
listing anyone.


Furthermore, I'd vote for *not* listing email addresses of contributors
in the THANKS file as they tend to get obsolete and make it email
address harvesters too easy to find the addresses.

Regards,
Enrico

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