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Re: OCA module contributors and migrations

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Sunflower IT, Tom Blauwendraat
- 13/07/2021 17:31:36

In my opinion:

- The "authors" list in manifest is something you want to keep small and just for important companies which contributed to the development, since it's also ugly when it's very long

- The contributors list in README can be as long as you want because it's not directly in anyone's view IMO - and I think any "thank you" that we can give people that invest their time in OCA, should be given

Just if people themselves feel their contribution is not worth a lot they can just not add it

Op 7/13/21 om 5:22 PM schreef Simone Rubino:
Agree that any contribution should be worth being mentioned in Contributors.
I think it can't be measured in Lines of Code: a perfect one-line fix can require as much work as 50 or more Lines of Code.
Just think how much time we spend on finding typos! And then the fix is maybe just one character.

On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 17:01, Frederik Kramer <frederik.kramer@initos.com> wrote:
Hi Kevin, 

this is not an easy question to have a definitive answer on.
 
I'd say as long as the amount of work somebody put into 
isn't negligable (say migrated 20 lines of small module) 
he / she should be named as a contributor.

I think we should probably more focus on how we can make the net
amount of work somebody spent on the artifact(s) more transparent, so
that it becomes a more visible to everybody if a contributor is 
only contributing a few or a huge pile of work.

But even then sometimes the smallest changes carefully thought and
crafted do the largest impact. 

Best Frederik

Am Dienstag, den 13.07.2021, 14:47 +0000 schrieb Kevin Khao:


> Hi,


> 


> This is about what counts as valid "contribution", that is, what you


> need to do to be added in the CONTRIBUTORS.rst file.


> 


> In some (most?) cases, a migration is not a huge amount of work. In


> some cases, it can represent a lot of work.


> 


> So it is arguable whether you should add yourself during migration


> commits.


> 


> In discussions on Github, I have seen differing opinions on this


> subject. Some think it "cheapens" the contributor list that you add


> yourself if you just did a migration commit.


> 


> I would lean towards adding yourself in any case a contributor


> anyways, since even if it's small it is still work, and should be


> recognized. Commit history is still there if you're interested in how


> much anyone contributed.


> 


> Maybe there is already a consensus that I'm not aware of ? What do


> you think ?


> 


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