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Tony,
   I support the need to include commit co-authors to recognize their contributions.
 - Louis

-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy Zhang 
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:38 AM
To: Tony Breeds; Tristan Cacqueray; Cathy Zhang
Cc: Jeremy Stanley; Henry Fourie; openstack-infra at lists.openstack.org; Kendall Nelson
Subject: RE: [OpenStack-Infra] Ballot for Openstack elections

Hi Tony,

I strongly support the proposal to mandate this. To be fair, I think TC should mandate this across all projects. In many complicated and technically hard commits, co-author does not make any less amount of technical contribution to the commit. If just the owner is counted, people will start to fight for the ownership of a commit which is not healthy for the open source community.  

For my own case, it is well known that I am the initiator and project lead of this networking-sfc project and have contributed a lot to this project on the technical side and project management side. I have done many reviews and approvals in this cycle and co-authored quite some commits. It is a surprise to me that co-author is not counted as technical contributor in Neutron. 

Thanks,
Cathy

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Breeds [mailto:tony at bakeyournoodle.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 9:05 AM
To: Tristan Cacqueray
Cc: Cathy Zhang; Jeremy Stanley; Henry Fourie; openstack-infra at lists.openstack.org; Kendall Nelson
Subject: Re: [OpenStack-Infra] Ballot for Openstack elections

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:44:43AM +0000, Tristan Cacqueray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The electorate roll generation tool[0] we used only collect owner of 
> gerrit merged review and Cathy actually wasn't part of the Neutron's 
> roll for Pike. It seems like the tool would need to also check for 
> Co-Author in commit message, but afaik it's not possible to assert 
> Foundation Member status solly based on mail address...
> 
> Perhaps for such case, co-author could be added to the extra-atc list?

Yup that's a per-project decision right now.  I s'pose we could ask for a TC resolution to clarify / madate this if someone in the community felt strongly enough about this.

Yours Tony.