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Re: [rdf4j-dev] shoutouts to contributors?
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Hi,
I think it would be great to simply mention everyone who has made a contribution. And non-committers who submit a bug fix could get their name next to that fix.
I don’t know if it would be good or bad mentioning which companies are involved. Personally I think a lot more companies should be helping out, but I’m also a bit worried that RDF4J would get associated with the companies helping out instead a being vendor neutral. Then again that hasn’t stopped ReactJS from becoming one of the most popular frameworks or RocksDB from being the go to backend for building your own database.
As for attributing features to core contributors like the ones reading this email....I’m a bit unsure. The time that goes into code review, discussions, CQ filing and release management are just as important for having RDF4J be a library that is out there and used by developers.
I have one suggestion though. Could we collaborate on the release notes for these major releases? Open a PR a week before so people can add their features. Bigger releases like this could easily be an a4 page of two with a leading summary. We could integrate some code examples and highlight some of the new features. Pointing to where the new features are documented would also be great.
Håvard
> On 7 May 2020, at 07:07, Jeen Broekstra <jeen.broekstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I just sent out the release announcements, and I realize that we are always fairly bland and "invisible", not really mentioning any people or companies that have made contributions.
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> Would it be a good idea for future releases to start naming contributors, as a sort of public nod of recognition and appreciation? If so, any thoughts on what form this should take? Part of the announcement, or perhaps in the release notes? Just as a list of names, or more specifically saying "John Doe built feature X and fixed bug Y"? Do we want affiliations mentioned?
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> Cheers,
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> Jeen
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