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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Contributor listing policy
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:54:41 -0400
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On Monday 10 March 2008 13:15, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Magnus,
>
> > It was also presented as the solution that -core agreed on. I'm sure that
> > if Josh actually lied about that, someone would've spoken up quite fast.
> > But I strongly doubt that Josh would claim to present the "view of the
> > core team" if the discussion hadn't taken place.
>
> Heh.  As if I could get away with that -- I'd have until list lag caught
> up to get blasted.
>
> I guess one of the questions here is "who owns the contributor
> listings?".  It's not a question we've ever dealt with specifically
> before, and it's unclear on even what *mailing list* would be involved
> in discussing them.  It seems like we'd need to involve half or more of
> the lists.
>
> For the last 3 years, nobody has discussed this because Robert just did
> it and submitted the list to Core, which approved it.  Now Robert is
> tired of the work, and what was implicit needs to become explicit.
>

To be clear, I didn't get tired of the work, I actually enjoyed the work 
(making sure others get recognition for thier efforts was a highlight for 
me). What  I did get tired of was that everytime I went to update the list 
some yaywho would pipe up with yet another scheme to redraw the entire 
listing. 

-- 
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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