[FM Discuss] credits (was: and the year begins)

[Luka Princic / Nova Viator]

hi all!

adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>:
> > attribution is a difficult problem, in some senses has broader
> > social implications. why quantitatively assess contributions? isn't
> > every contribution to be valued and encouraged as such? 
> > 
> > while being ideal, i believe this normalisation doesn't work; it's
> > important not to underestimate how much the belief a person will be
> > recognised for their contribution motivates them to contribute in
> > the first instance.
> 
> Yeah, very good points...I'm going to ponder a little on these. Very
> interested in how others feel about these issues. 


while on one hand i feel like i wouldn't really care who contributed
how much, as long as we are all mentioned there, to me it seems the
most elegant solution to create categories for each project separately.
or maybe there can be some generalization:

manual written by
Joe Doe and Lisa Smith

with contributions from
Adam
Luka
Derek

proof reading /  minor corrections
...
...
...
?

i guess there's not more then four categories. it's possible that they
are different from project to project. can this be abstracted into
preferences/properties of each manual in the backend interface?

personaly i'm wary of this weighting of work. but that might be just me.

i don't have much experience here, just my .02e?


ah, and happy new year everyone. looking forward to pd sprint. so is
25-30 march confirmed?



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