Re: [eigen] updating the credits section on the wiki

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Everybody is very welcome to do so! This has been said in the past,
but either people don't "dare" to or they forget about it.

I was unaware that this had been said in the past, and I actually wondered which was the current practice for updating the credits page. I now know.

Doing what I said would take 30 minutes and needs to be done twice a
year, so it's still workable.

Benoit

2010/10/15 Adolfo Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian <adolfo.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone volunteer for updating the credits section on the wiki?
>>
>> It involves:
>> - looking up in wiki Main Page history when was the last time it was
>> updated
>> - using 'hg log' to see all the changesets from that date to now
>> - process that output to see the list of all contributors (some
>> cut/sort/uniq will help here)
>> - remove me / Gael / Hauke / Jitse / Thomas from that list (we're
>> already taking care of ourselves)
>> - for each of the resulting contributors, use 'hg log -u' to see what
>> they did, merge together multiple addresses of unique persons
>> - update the wiki.
>>
>
> IMO this sounds like something nobody will want to (or should) do. The
> silence of this thread up to now could be considered an argument in favor of
> this ;). How about every non-core dev updates the credits for her/his
> relevant contributions, following the style/structure of the existing page?.
> We can all probably find a little time to highlight our own contributions.
> OTOH, doing this for almost everybody else is a PITA.
>
> € 0.02
>
> Adolfo.
>
>> Benoit
>>
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