From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: proposal: add "packagers" field (list of strings (names)) to package definition Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 12:36:17 +0200 Message-ID: <874mfzx1i6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <565D565C.4030208@gmx.net> <87zixtezjy.fsf@igalia.com> <565F0768.2030209@gmx.net> <87r3j4g789.fsf@igalia.com> <87r3j4k4n0.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33042) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4RFY-00025C-Il for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 05:36:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4RFV-0001xD-DF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 05:36:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87r3j4k4n0.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 2 Dec 2015 20:54:43 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > With every release the release announcement also includes a list of > contributors since the last release next to a number of their > contributions. I think that this is a very public statement of > appreciation and quite motivating (because of the numbers, so you can > even be competitive if you want to). Right, and it=E2=80=99s intended this way. I=E2=80=99m open to doing more in terms of public recognition, but I agree = with others that the =E2=80=98packagers=E2=80=99 or =E2=80=98maintainers=E2=80= =99 fields aren=E2=80=99t the right place. Florian, do you have other ideas on how we could publicly show our appreciation of contributions? Ludo=E2=80=99.