Re: Fair large change to contributors

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On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:44:30 -0500
Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> wrote:

> On Monday 03 December 2007 23:42, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > O.k. patch is attached, it looks pretty good on my sandbox but will
> > welcome feedback. The specifics are below:
> > * Adds Active Contributors
> > * Adds Occasional Contributors
> >
>
> I'm not sure what reasoning spawned this change, but I would object
> to it myself, mostly on grounds that the people in those lists have
> been categorized on significance of their contribution (Major), not
> frequency of it (Active).

Major is quantitatively more subjective than Active.

>
> On a side note, whilst everyone has been discussing reshaping the
> lists in thier own vision, I think what has been fairly overlooked is
> the task of shuffling some of our Majors and Others between those two
> categories (at least I always thought that was an important part when
> I was maintaining the information, I'm not sure what the current
> ideas behind the thing are)

My understanding and this is implicit as I was never told so I am
making a complete assumption here, is that it was Josh Berkus's
responsibility.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>

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