On 06/29/2015 09:35 PM, John Darrington wrote: > The measure of contribution of any one individual cannot be determined by > any parametric algorithm. >
Right. > Attempting to generate such a list might lead to people makeing trivial or > frivolous contributions in order to get their name in the list. Well, I don't think that will happen, or that it would be such an issue :) Still, it feels nice to have your name included in THANKS/AUTHORS because someone actually thought "damn, this developer does a lot of work, how is their name not in AUTHORS ?". Having a make target adding it is a bit "meh", imho. Cyril.