On Jan 13, 2008 8:14 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > If you've contributed to Sage, please take a look at > http://sagemath.org/ack.html > > If (a) you aren't listed, or (b) you don't like how you're listed, or > (c) just want > the listing changed somehow, please send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > so I can update the page. I haven't changed anything on that page for quite > a while, but there have been many new contributors to Sage, so I bet it is > out of date, and I don't want anybody's valuable contributions to go > unrecognized. Thanks!!
I was just going to ask about exactly the same thing. How do you measure a contributor? In sympy we list everyone who contributed at least a patch in the README http://hg.sympy.org/sympy/file/3d032940e734/README currently 18 people. But obviously, people can and do contribute by other means too, like writing docs, reporting bugs (very important contribution!), blogging, etc. Also another problem is, for example let's say you would like to write a paper about Sage. So who should go among the authors of the paper? So we determine a set A of people who will be on that paper, but then all the other people who contribute later will not get any citation for their work, unless some new paper will be published. Etc. Another way of giving the credit is listing names of people in docstrings and files. (I don't like this, but we discussed this before already). I like the http://sagemath.org/ack.html, also there could be links to the Sage wiki page about each contributor? I mean - there could be a wiki page where anyone can add himself, currently it's here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/ in the section PEOPLE. Actually I think the ack.html can be a wiki too, but maybe only the project leader could edit it. So ack.html will say a little about each contributor, and then when clicking on his name, his wiki page will popup, where anyone can read in more details, what he works on in Sage, what he is interested in, etc. We discussed this quite thouroghly in sympy too: http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=513 I think what works well is when the project leader uses his judgement and handles this as best as he can, i.e. listing all people who contributed a patch and listing all other people, who contributed significantly by other means. But nevertheless, maybe it's good to have some written set of rules, how to handle these things. I don't have a firm opinion on these issues, so I am interested in your ideas. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
