Managing expectations with a contributions and credit policy

Posted May 21, 2024 4:59 UTC (Tue) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)
In reply to: Managing expectations with a contributions and credit policy by vaurora
Parent article: Managing expectations with a contributions and credit policy

You're right, it's trivial to abuse it and does not mix well with people with inflated egos, or who like to game the system. Maybe I didn't think about it because I work with decent people ;) I'm not sure we have anything much better, though.

FWIW, GitHub will display all authors (and also the committer) on a list of commits in a PR, as icons next to each commit. When you open a particular commit, the primary author is obviously emphasized, though.

Managing expectations with a contributions and credit policy

Posted May 28, 2024 12:31 UTC (Tue) by wiktor (guest, #132450) [Link]

Agreed, that in most cases the problem just doesn't appear if you've got a good team and if you've got a bad team then patch authorship is the smallest of your problems.

As a maintainer I sometimes have to fix the PR of a contributor that disappeared and the PR is in conflict. I usually leave the author but append myself as `Co-authored-by` if the conflict resolution is not trivial or needs further adjustments or code changes (e.g. adding test cases).