[openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 00:08:16 UTC 2013


On 11/11/2013 12:27 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 12:09 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
>> What about something with attribution in the docs for the feature? Can
>> we play around with that a while? Attribution is going to have to be
>> incorporated better into the docs for the CC By licensing anyway. Any
>> thoughts on docs as placement for "This feature brought to you by
>> <insert rewarded upstreamer here>" We need to play with the words more.
>> Sponsored by brings up ickies for me, sounds like it turns others off
>> too. Let's be careful with wording and placement both.
>
> This sounds like it could get really messy.  Once a feature goes in, it
> becomes a collaboration between many people over time.  It sounds like
> it would get into the same situation as our copyright headers in source
> files (wildly incomplete).

Wildy inconsistent as well.

> This also has a tendency to just recognize feature adds, and not common
> work.  Lack of or minimal contributions to common work by some
> organizations is already a pretty big problem in various parts of OpenStack.

+10

-jay




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