Jason Tang

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• Commented on Authors vs. Contributors
  "My philosophy is to share credit liberally. There's plenty to go around. An author is a contributor and vice versa. Maintainership is different. Someone must guide the project for the long term. If the demarcation of that responsibility must exist,...
• Commented on Authors vs. Contributors
  I would ask the question 'What is the point?'. If its driven by as you say '..placing too much self-importance on myself as the creator of a distribution' then sure go ahead. However its probably then fair to break it...
• Commented on Exciting updates to MetaCPAN
  It works but was a little confused when presented with a json payload when I followed the link in the email. Nice work...

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• http://www.wgz.org/chromatic/ commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  My philosophy is to share credit liberally. There's plenty to go around. An author is a contributor and vice versa.

  Maintainership is different. Someone must guide the project for the long term. If the demarcation of that responsibility must exist, make it explicit.

• Vyacheslav Matyukhin commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  RJBS is very open, but he's also very busy :(
  I've been waiting for my two pull requests to dzil for almost a year now...

• Chisel commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  Interesting. So maybe Maintainer + Author(s)?

  I'm definitely interested in the long-term direction of the module that set me off on this train of thought. I would feel quite happy with Maintainer and a list of authors.

  I've always credited liberally - any accepted patch, typo fix, or modules that I've borrowed from all get appropriate mentions.

  I'm thinking about the dist.ini/dzil convenience that I'm aspiring towards and wonder how many variations I should aim for. Definitely an idea I need to give a lot more thought to.

• dagolden.com commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  My off-the-cuff thoughts:

  • "authors" would be people that get listed in META.* metadata vs "contributors" making contributions, but not being on the hook for contact about the module (which is the definition in the CPAN::Meta::Spec)
  • In some licenses, e.g. Apache 2.0, the term "contributor" has specific meaning, whereas "author" would really mean "licensor" in such a license.

  Ultimately, I think it's a fine idea to acknowledge con…

• Gábor Szabó - גאבור סבו commented on Authors vs. Contributors

  For Padre we have a section called
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS where we list The Padre development team in ABC order and a separate section for translators.
  

  
  Though I am not sure why do we still have them separated.
  

  
  In the about box they put a separate "Created by Gábor Szabó" and I did not argue with them but this is a special case as this is an application that has an about box.