[SciPy-Dev] Thanks wiki protocol

[Matt Haberland]

+1 for retiring the manually updated file.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 3:55 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 9:43 PM <rlucas7 at vt.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi scipy-dev,
>>
>> For work on the 1.5 release we used a wiki rather than have people add
>> commits to the thanks file in the repo.
>> I’m assuming this was to alleviate rebase conflicts to merge. My question
>> is,
>>
>> Is using a wikifor tracking thanks to add in each release the way we
>> track thanks entries moving forward?
>>
>> To be clear these would be separate wiki pages from the release notes
>> wiki pages.
>>
>
> That does sound like a good idea.
>
> A perhaps even better one is to retire the THANKS.txt file. It really
> doesn't have much value, is very inconsistently updated and old entries are
> horribly out of date (e.g. Pauli is thanked for docs work and interpolation
> bug fixes - that doesn't quite cover his contributions :)).
>
> I'd prefer to extract the relevant historical info and put that on the
> website. Or just have a full list of contributors that's autogenerated. The
> thanks to institutions at the bottom of the file already lives at
> https://scipy.org/scipylib/donations.html#acknowledgements
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
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