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Re: OCA module contributors and migrations

I think any migration should be considered as a contribution. As some of you said before, that may encourage more users to contribute.

Any migration (even if it's a standard migration) needs an investment of time. On the other hand, when a user starts a migration he/she is "open" to receive suggestions, changes... Any migration is liable to become a headache.

I agree that correcting a small typo (for example) wouldn't be enough for being considered as a contributor.

Regards.

El mié, 14 jul 2021 a las 9:17, Jairo Llopis (<jairo.llopis@tecnativa.com>) escribió:
El mar, 13 de jul de 2021 a las 15:37:13 PM, David Beal <david.beal@akretion.com> escribió:
A point of view could be that contributors should be someone who can answer any questions about the module in the future.
Then it should have the expertise on the topic to do it.

That sounds more like a maintainer.

El mar, 13 de jul de 2021 a las 15:37:12 PM, Tom Blauwendraat <tom@sunflowerweb.nl> escribió:

- The "authors" list in manifest is something you want to keep small and just for important companies which contributed to the development, since it's also ugly when it's very long

- The contributors list in README can be as long as you want because it's not directly in anyone's view IMO - and I think any "thank you" that we can give people that invest their time in OCA, should be given

Just if people themselves feel their contribution is not worth a lot they can just not add it


100% agree.

As a side note, remember that there are plenty of ways to contribute to a module without writing a single line of code.

OCA should be generous in this kind of attribution. That will encourage people to contribute more.

This should be hardcoded in the guidelines though.

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by Harald Panten Lopez - 11:25 - 14 Jul 2021

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  • OCA module contributors and migrations
    Hi,

    This is about what counts as valid "contribution", that is, what you need to do to be added in the CONTRIBUTORS.rst file.

    In some (most?) cases, a migration is not a huge amount of work. In some cases, it can represent a lot of work.

    So it is arguable whether you should add yourself during migration commits.

    In discussions on Github, I have seen differing opinions on this subject. Some think it "cheapens" the contributor list that you add yourself if you just did a migration commit.

    I would lean towards adding yourself in any case a contributor anyways, since even if it's small it is still work, and should be recognized. Commit history is still there if you're interested in how much anyone contributed.

    Maybe there is already a consensus that I'm not aware of ? What do you think ?


    by "Kevin Khao" <kevin.khao@akretion.com.br> - 04:46 - 13 Jul 2021