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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Leaving KMail development
From:       Carsten Burghardt <burghardt () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-11-30 12:40:53
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On Saturday 30 November 2002 12:45, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Saturday 30 November 2002 11:26, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > Here, I'd like to propose to trim the list of authors down to people who
> > have actually committed something. People just sending a patch or two
> > can be listed in the credits page. As is it now, people like KHZ and Bo
> > who are contributing large to huge amounts of code and Waldo, who
> > contributes seldomly, but regularly, stand in a line with people that
> > sent one patch three years ago.
>
> Agreed, people who contribute a little bit are not automatically authors.

Another point: if the list of authors is very long (like ours) there is a risk 
that people think "Hey, they have that many developers, why don't they 
implement feature xyz" or they think we don't need more developers.

-- 
Regards,

Carsten Burghardt
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