Re: Inactive Specifcation Co-authors

2014-08-20 2:44 GMT+02:00 Erik Lagerway <erik@hookflash.com>:
> I am certain he is active, as are Emil, Peter, Roman, Christoph and others
> but if we added everyone that is contributing, the author list would rapidly
> become unruly.
>
> For me it's less about being active and more about who is doing (and
> continues to do) the lions share of the work, which is one reason I
> volunteered to be be removed as part of this proposal.


Hi all.

I do understand that contributing does not mean that same as
authoring. Authoring is about writing down all the feedback from
contributors into a spec document (among other things) and that
involves a lot of work. That's exactly the task in which I was deeply
involved some time ago during the first versions of ORTC [*]. I did
that in my spare time and could not keep my implication at the same
level, sorry for that.

Said that, it is now and not some months ago when I can get involved
again (thanks to my current job) and I'll do that (after my holidays).
I understand that the current spec has evolved a lot from the first
approaches so if you consider that I should be removed as active
author I'm fine with that. If so, option 2 (keep a section with
"Previous Authors") seems good, but I would also suggest adding
another one "Acknowledgments" in which active contributors are listed
(as in so many drafts).

Best regards.


[*] https://github.com/openpeer/ortc/blob/master/obsolete/draft-w3c-ortc-api-00.md



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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>

Received on Wednesday, 20 August 2014 10:14:51 UTC