On 09/24/2012 09:51, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Bart Cerneels
<bart.cerne...@kde.org> wrote:
The currently active Amarok team has defined the authors list to
contain current contributors that have ownership (written it or
maintaining it for a while) of amarok components or non-coding
contributions to the project. As far as I can tell there is no legal
reason to list all past contributors as authors.
Myriam pushed a commit reflecting what we thought was the current
state of that list yesterday. A few people don't seem to agree and
reverted their own entries.
At the time of the discussion, I asked if we were moving
no-longer-active authors to a "previous author" category or similar,
and was assured that this was what was being done. After examining
the
diff, I see that that is *not* true, and the former authors have been
moved into Contributors.
This seems disrespectful to me, and not in the spirit of teamwork
that
we want to foster. Legalities? I believe those are satisfied by
headers. Our About dialog is about community, not legality. I very
much hope we can respectfully honor the work of major contributors in
the past, and not move them into the same bin in which we place those
who have contributed a few euros or a couple of patches.
I agree with the sentiment, although I should mention that in the past
we've moved previous authors to contributors...but for lack of a better
solution.
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