I haven't done a great deal of work on the handbook, but nearly all my edits are fixing typos and more recently 'archiving' old and out of date pages. In both of those cases I really, really don't want my username listed on the page next to those pages.<br>
<br>Additionally, sometimes I'll see a page that looks completely wrong to me, but then I'll notice a greggles or a webchick attached to the revisions tab - and then realise they were only moving it's location or fixing a typo. So I agree this opens up people to a lot of e-mail support, and making pages look more of less authoritative simply due to who's edited it or how many different people have.<br>
<br>Having said all that, +1 to making the documentation contributors list more prominent. There's the 'most active developers' block on <a href="http://drupal.org/cvs">http://drupal.org/cvs</a> which is fun to look at sometimes - probably wouldn't be that hard to have a 'documentation commit messages' page as well (maybe this already exists somewhere as recent changes?).<br>
<br>Another thing with this - the cvs metrics that greggles does for core releases are always interesting to see - both who's contributing, and the distribution of patches. Individual cvs commit messages don't provide this so well (and never exactly match who contributed to a patch, and hardly ever the person who might have typed up the initial bug report) - but at an aggregate level they're good for seeing trends in the project. So I'm not so interested in attribution for individual pages (I guess people who really want that post documentation planet rather than in the handbook), but I am quite interested in getting some statistical data on documentation contributions in general.<br>
<br>If you're reading this conversation, and haven't seen <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/user/9198" title="View user profile.">José</a>'s post on the Drupal.org redesign group [1], then this'd probably be worth looking at together with that. It's the sort of thing that'd be easier to implement on a separate subdomain.<br>
<br>Nat<br><br>1. <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/10223">http://groups.drupal.org/node/10223</a><br>