[PD-dev] cleaning up the list of developers

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Martin Peach wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Hallo,
>>> IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>>> I propose that we leave Gerard van Dongen and Jamie Tittle on the
>>>>>> list since they are still with us in spirit.
>>>>>> 
>>>> i regret that i do not fully understand this request either.
>>>> while both of them have contributed a lot and chances are high that they
>>>> would be contributing if they were still with us, i do not see a point
>>>> in treating them as if they were still among us.
>>>> a usual clause for "vereins"-members (in morbid austria) is, that their
>>>> membership ends with their death.
>>>> 
>>>> personally, i would not want to do the removal of jamie or gerard just
>>>> because they are no longer with us. but i have little problem in having
>>>> their sourceforge accounts be part of an automated process.
>>>> 
>>> I agree with that. It's a delicate issue: James and Gerard will be
>>> with us in spirit. They belong to the project as long as the project
>>> exists.
>>> 
>>> But if we update the list and make it into a list of active developers
>>> - something which I would advocate - it would not be appropriate to keep
>>> their accounts in that list.
>>> 
>>> We should avoid to create the impression, that James' and Gerard's
>>> developer accounts are only listed because someone "forgot" to update
>>> the list.
>>> 
>> 
>> I guess that I am the only sentimental one here.  I just thought it would 
>> be a nice gesture to leave them there.
>> 
>> 
>
> If you want them to be remembered, it may be better to name something after 
> them. Not many people will be perusing the list of developers.
>
> Martin
>

Yeah, I was planning on making this Pd-extended release in memory of 
Jamie.  I was thinking of just putting that on the webpage, but I guess 
something better could be done.

.hc

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