[documentation] Contributors to docs need more public recognition

[Steve Dondley]

If it's probably not worth the effort, don't do it. It was a spur of
the moment idea.

In fact, I'm not really interested in debating this feature further.

But I will defend this to the teeth:
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-May/006023.html.
This needs to happen. It's simple to do and will reap benefits.

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Angela Byron <drupal-docs at webchick.net> wrote:
> Steve Dondley wrote:
>>> So what's the difference between that and what we have now? Well, in
>>> my mind, the big difference between a "maintainer" and a "contributor"
>>> is that a "maintainer" is willing to take requests directly from the
>>> community and do the contributing on behalf of others. But, again,
>>> nothing would ever give the maintainer the power over others to
>>> contribute. They would just be someone you could defer to.
>
> So...
>
> We could wait around for someone to code a "sign up to be a maintainer
> of this page/don't make me a maintainer of this page anymore/contact me
> here for problems on this page" thing, which would then need to be
> reviewed by the security team, tested and integrated into d.o, thus
> taking volunteer time away from other efforts on existing security
> reviews and other priorities on the d.o redesign... not to mention take
> what are now existing *public* comments, whose clarification benefit the
> entire community and instead send them on as private notes via e-mail to
> the handbook page maintainer, in the hopes that they actually meant it
> when they said they would maintain the page and these helpful comments
> won't just end up in a spam folder somewhere...
>
> Or!
>
> If someone cares about a page, they could simply monitor it for
> comments, respond to any inquiries, and update the page as needed, thus
> asserting themselves as the "maintainer" of said page. a.k.a, exactly
> what we have now, with no extra effort required. :)
>
> I know which one I'd prefer to go with. ;)
>
> -Angie
>
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