[SciPy-Dev] Thanks wiki protocol

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 2:47 AM <rlucas7 at vt.edu> wrote:

>
> On Aug 17, 2020, at 10:40 PM, Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
> For the author lists (with new contributors highlighted), the command
> looks like " python tools/authors.py 042731365..fb51f487c8 "
>
> I think some of those release management tools are dependent on proper
> usage of milestones, though perhaps not in that specific case where the
> hash range is provided directly.
>
>
> Thanks Tyler. I didn’t check closely on the milestone issue-you mean use
> of tags on the commit log right?
>
> I was able to add a flag to get the names and nothing else so those could
> easily be copied into the file on the website.
>
> Pr is:
>
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12793
>
> I also opened a pr on the website repo to move over thanks file:
>
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/364
>
> Finally, I opened a separate pr to delete the existing thanks:
>
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12792
>
> I think this is what you had in mind Ralf but if not please let me know on
> the PR(s).
>

Thanks Lucas. That set of PRs looks like what I had in mind. Looking at the
moving of content - should we decide right now to drop all the
outdated/incomplete stuff, and simply have a list of contributor names?
Either organized by date of first contribution, or alphabetically?

Cheers,
Ralf



> On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 18:04, <rlucas7 at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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 horribly out of date (e.g. Pauli is thanked for docs work and interpolation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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