contributions

[Mathias Gug]

Hi Nicolas,

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:51:47PM -0500, Nicolas Valcarcel wrote:
> Hi,
>     Since hardy i have notice that some times contributions are not taking
> into account, mostly on merges. For MOTUs and core devels is not needed to
> file a bug since it's only needed to upload the package, but some times, a
> contributor, which need to file a bug, upload his debdiff and ask for
> sponsorship, make the work for nothing, becase one developer (no one in
> special) work on that merge and upload it. I think is not fair, and
> discourage for new contributor, so i think it lack for a common process
> where this things doesn't happen.

Are you referring to the fact that the package doesn't show up in the
contributor package list ? Usually the contributor is credited in the
Changelog entry.

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Mathias Gug
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