[documentation] Contributors to docs need more public recognition

[Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen]

Steve Dondley skrev:
>Someone reverted some documentation I submitted at
>http://drupal.org/node/262422 which removed a credit attributed to
>myself and others for writing the documentation. I specifically placed
>the credit in there to point out a bad oversight on the part of d.o.
>which is that documentation writers receive little to no public
>recognition for their work.
<zap>

For what it's worth, I somehow feel this falls into the "Don’t allow 
names in source files — this creates unnecessary sense of ownership of a 
piece of code. Your version control system should keep track of who 
worked on it for credit/copyright reasons." category mentioned in 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZSFDm3UYkeE .

Make the "documentation credits" page more prominent instead, make a 
"documenter of the month" or something instead. Don't write the credits 
directly to the page. Angie and Nancy (and others) have already provided 
plenty of reasons why not to.

-- 
Sincerely,
Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/>

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