Canonical place for giving credits to contributors

[Christopher Allan Webber]

We should start giving credit to everyone who's making GNU MediaGoblin a success (and not just people who do (c) assignment with the FSF).

Where's the best place to put this?

Assigning to Will, whom I know is presently overloaded, and can get to after Miro 4.0 gets out the door.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

I think this requires two things:

1. a file like AUTHORS that lists everyone and maybe a one/two-word blurb of what they worked on (e.g. translations, code, bug reporter, thinker, docs, ...)
2. a clearly stated and easy to find workflow that's easy to do for someone to request their name get added to the AUTHORS file

I also think we should do this:

1. a view in the software that displays the AUTHORS file... maybe /gmgcredits/ or something like that

[Will Kahn-Greene]

I'm still +1 on the AUTHORS idea. That's what I'm doing with PyBlosxom now, though I'm being looser about it and not including what people worked on--it's just a big list of names of people who contributed.

Is that what we want to do?

[Christopher Allan Webber]

That works for me.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/339 .

[Will Kahn-Greene]

I'm pretty sure this is done now. Marking as fixed.