[opensource-wg] Call for contributions: Example credit policy

Hello Paul,

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On 2023-12-20 14:14, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> […]
>
> (I always wonder, why a Open Source group use proprietary software 
> like Google Docs. Does RIPE offer alternatives already? Otherwise, I’d 
> suggest some Git repository.)
There are projects like HackMD useful for this, but for me, it's 
Valerie's discretion to choose the tools. Anyway, thank you for 
inspiration for another credit issue example.
>> Two concrete examples:
>>
>> How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution – Ariel Miculas
>
> […]
>
> I took the time to read Ariel’s article, and I think this is blown out 
> of proportion. Ariel was credited, and the subsystem maintainer 
> Michael apologized. Things happen.
>
> Has this issue come up more often in the RIPE related Open source 
> projects (BIRD, Quagga, OpenBGPD, XORP, DHCP, RRDtool, ntop and 
> Nagios, …), that the working group wants to take this on?

At least with BIRD, we had issues (not escalated tho) when contributions 
were credited poorly, and we already did some internal decisions to try 
to credit the contributions properly. I also suspect that some 
contributors actually got discouraged by our approach to their 
contributions in farther history. This way, having a written policy how 
to do it, is a step which seems to be helpful at least for us.

Have a nice holiday season!
Maria

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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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