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

[Lex Trotman]

On 12 March 2017 at 20:59, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> 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.

As my rant indicated, I agree with that.  My only worry is missing
people, I'm sure it will always be a last minute thing before release,
and then people get forgotten.

>
>
> 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.
>

Totally agree with that, even though many email addresses will be
visible from other sources, we shouldn't be propogating them without
explicit permission.

Cheers
Lex

> Regards,
> Enrico
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