Re: proposal: add "packagers" field (list of strings (names)) to package definition

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> 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’s intended this way.

I’m open to doing more in terms of public recognition, but I agree with
others that the ‘packagers’ or ‘maintainers’ fields aren’t the right
place.

Florian, do you have other ideas on how we could publicly show our
appreciation of contributions?

Ludo’.