Requests for comment/CREDITS

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Task T139300

Request for comment (RFC)

CREDITS
Component	General
Creation date	12 October 2016
Author(s)	Jdlrobson
Document status	implemented See Phabricator.

Problem

Jdlrobson notes: I came across a patch from a user who was keen to move himself from "Patch contributors" to "Developers" in the MediaWiki CREDITS file [1]. It had been sitting there for over a year. He doesn't seem to have been active since. I don't know what to do with it. It made me think.

"Special:Version/Credits leads with 'We would like to recognize the following persons for their contribution to MediaWiki." - if someone is not in that list are they not as important?

Proposal

Main proposal:

•  Abandon concept of developers vs contributors - have a single list
•  Add a page on mediawiki.org to document the policy for being in this list.
•  Put link to this page at top of credits page.

Alternative proposal:

• Abandon CREDITS files, autogenerate this from commit history.

Further background

Wikitech-l discussion:

• July 2016
• June 2016
• May 2016