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"I came across a patch from a user who was keen to move himself from "Patch contributors" to "Developers" in the MediaWiki CREDITS file [1]. It had been sitting there for over a year. He doesn't seem to have been active since. I don't know what to do with it. It made me think. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version/Credits leads with 'We would like to recognize the following persons for their contribution to MediaWiki." - if someone is not in that list are they not as important? My proposal: [] Abandon concept of developers vs contributors - have a single list [] Add a page on mediawiki.org to document the policy for being in this list. [] Put link to this page at top of credits page. Alternative proposal: * Abandon CREDITS files, autogenerate this from commit history. Wikitech-l discussion: * [July 2016](https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-July/085985.html) * [June 2016](https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-June/085867.html) * [May 2016](https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-May/085796.html)

I came across a patch from a user who was keen to move himself from "Patch contributors" to "Developers" in the MediaWiki CREDITS file [1]. It had been sitting there for over a year. He doesn't seem to have been active since. I don't know what to do with it. It made me think. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version/Credits leads with 'We would like to recognize the following persons for their contribution to MediaWiki." - if someone is not in that list are they not as important? * RFC on wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CREDITS IRC discussion(s): * {E316} Wikitech-l discussion(s): * [July 2016](https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-July/085985.html) * [June 2016](https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-June/085867.html) * [May 2016](https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-May/085796.html)

"I came across a patch from a user who was keen to move himself from "Patch contributors" to "Developers" in the MediaWiki CREDITS file [1]. It had been sitting there for over a year. He doesn't seem to have been active since. I don't know what to do with it. It made me think. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version/Credits leads with 'We would like to recognize the following persons for their contribution to MediaWiki." - if someone is not in that list are they not as important? My proposal: [] Abandon concept of developers vs contributors - have a single list [] Add a page on mediawiki.org to document the policy for being in this list. [] Put link to this page at top of credits page.* RFC on wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CREDITS Alternative proposal:IRC discussion(s): * Abandon CREDITS files, autogenerate this from commit history.* {E316} Wikitech-l discussion(s): * [July 2016](https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-July/085985.html) * [June 2016](https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-June/085867.html) * [May 2016](https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-May/085796.html)