[yt-dev] License switch: remove author tags

Anthony Scopatz scopatz at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 13:36:12 PDT 2013


Hey Nathan,

I think that this is generally good move.  Though I would encourage an
authors page on the website which lists everyone who has contributed.

Be Well
Anthony


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Matt,
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I am +1 on removing the author tags.  That being said, I consciously
> >> decided *not* to, for basically two reasons which are somewhat
> >> related.  The first is that I think removing the author tags will
> >> disproportionately impact individuals who perhaps have contributed
> >> specific files or analysis modules but have not contributed a large
> >> quantity of code to the overall base of yt.  The second reason is
> >> really my main one: I don't want to be as strongly associated with yt
> >> as I currently am.  Not because I don't have pride in it (I do), but
> >> because I don't want people who aren't deep in the code development to
> >> believe that I'm the only person contributing, and I do not think that
> >> does favors for *anyone*.  (I still receive many emails off-list,
> >> people say things to me that I have to correct about what yt is, etc
> >> etc.)  It creates an impression of consolidation of responsibility, as
> >> well as undermines the credit that others receive for their
> >> contributions.  Having names (that aren't mine) on source files
> >> reduces the apparent consolidation.  I was leery of making such a
> >> change, because removing names felt really wrong to me to do on my
> >> own.
> >>
> >
> > I'd argue that the yt = matt turk misconception is made worse by the
> author
> > tags, since your name is on almost every file.
>
> Then let's get rid of them.
>
> >
> >>
> >> So, I'm fine with removing them if everyone else is too.  But I'd also
> >> like to trade this for having some type of mechanism for public
> >> recognition of efforts.  (In addition to another paper, which is
> >> probably still a bit off.)  Perhaps something like a core team, or
> >> list of contributors, on the website?  Something that can be pointed
> >> to, put on a CV, anything.
> >
> >
> > Very much agreed.  I'd follow what the IPython project does, a list of
> core
> > contributors on the website and list of *all* contributors for each
> release:
> >
> > http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/about/license_and_copyright.html
> > http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/whatsnew/github-stats-1.0.html
>
> I like this a lot.
>
> I've mentioned in IRC a few times that I'd like to re-do the homepage.
>  If anyone wants to work on that, I'd be totally game.  I think having
> something based on bootstrap with the "slate" theme might be nice; I
> started sketching out something the other day.  One option would be to
> move the *entire* homepage to Sphinx and just have a nice template for
> the front page, similar to what IPython and others do.
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nathan
> >
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