[SciPy-Dev] Thanks wiki protocol

[rlucas7 at vt.edu]

> On Aug 15, 2020, at 8:15 PM, Matt Haberland <mhaberla at calpoly.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> +1 for retiring the manually updated file. 
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 3:55 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 9:43 PM <rlucas7 at vt.edu> wrote:
>>> 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 It really doesn't have much value, is very inconsistently updated and old entries are horribly out of date (e.g. Pauli is thanked for docs work and interpolation bug fixes - that doesn't quite cover his contributions :)).
>> 

Yeah agree. 

>> 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.

We already do the auto generate for each release IIRC. At least I assume that the RM (Tyler) does that in an auto generated way. 

>> The thanks to institutions at the bottom of the file already lives at https://scipy.org/scipylib/donations.html#acknowledgements

We could move the individual thanks entries (as currently written) to the scipy site. As a separate section on this acknowledgements page.

That would be a one off change but what about moving forward? 

I’ve noticed on the release notes there are indications for first time contributors. I’ve not used those tools myself.

 Is there a way we can get a list of these first time contributors/individuals from the same tool(s)? 

That would probably be the easiest thing to do if we want to periodically add/update a contributors page. 

>> Cheers,
>> Ralf
>> 
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