On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/09/2012 08:13 AM, Radhika Puthiyetath wrote: >> >> Hello Community, >> >> We are in the process of updating the Author List for the ASFCS 4.0 >> documentation. >> >> Request all the amazing documentation contributors to share their name and >> email id. >> >> As promised, your name will be displayed in the contributors list in the >> documentation. >> >> Thank you again for all your enthusiasm and hard work towards getting the >> documentation ready for ASFC 4.0. >> > > While I get the idea, isn't the documentation something that comes from the > Apache Software Foundation? (Remember the CLA?) > > As a group we are contributing to the project as a group, the CloudStack > brings out a new release, not the individual members. > > So I'm not sure that we should mention the individual contributors to the > documentation, I don't think so. > > Wido
Exactly - we've already removed many names from source code and docs. While we appreciate individuals work it does become unmaintainable over time, and we are doing this as a community working together. Radhika you do have a file named Author_Group - and you'll notice (unless someone has recently changed things) that the author is "Apache CloudStack". If you need to track who contributed it, our revision control system has a wonderful functionality called 'git blame' which is far more accurate than an authors file will ever be. Plus there is a policy against this, see: https://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html#contributor-copyright --David
