Authorship

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> The currently active Amarok team has defined the authors list to
> contain current contributors that have ownership (written it or
> maintaining it for a while) of amarok components or non-coding
> contributions to the project. As far as I can tell there is no legal
> reason to list all past contributors as authors.
> Myriam pushed a commit reflecting what we thought was the current
> state of that list yesterday. A few people don't seem to agree and
> reverted their own entries.

At the time of the discussion, I asked if we were moving
no-longer-active authors to a "previous author" category or similar,
and was assured that this was what was being done. After examining the
diff, I see that that is *not* true, and the former authors have been
moved into Contributors.

This seems disrespectful to me, and not in the spirit of teamwork that
we want to foster. Legalities? I believe those are satisfied by
headers. Our About dialog is about community, not legality. I very
much hope we can respectfully honor the work of major contributors in
the past, and not move them into the same bin in which we place those
who have contributed a few euros or a couple of patches.

All the best,

Valorie

> I assume those who consider themselves representatives and active
> contributors of the Amarok project are willing to do the work that
> earns that distinction.
> Let me point you to some continually ongoing tasks:
> Amarok regressions:
> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=Amarok%3A%20regression&sharer_id=70102&list_id=224345
> Amarok release blockers:
> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=Amarok%3A%20release_blocker&sharer_id=70102&list_id=224346
> Amarok most hated:
> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=Amarok%3A%20most%20hated&sharer_id=70102&list_id=224347
>
> And this weekend the meetings we hold at Randa will in a very
> significant way determine the future of Amarok:
> http://community.kde.org/Sprints/Randa/2012/Multimedia#Amarok_Topics
> As an author it's a given you'll try to contribute by being physically
> there, prepared materials to support the meeting or join by video chat
> (we hosted a G+ hangout for all the Amarok team to join, promise to be
> better with scheduling and lighting today).
>
> Bart
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