[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22305: Credits Page Should Include more than 'just' people who commit a patch

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#22305: Credits Page Should Include more than 'just' people who commit a patch
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 Reporter:  Ipstenu      |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Help/About   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by brandondove):

 Replying to [comment:13 helenyhou]:
 > To me, a credits page in the software itself is, by nature, software
 credits, and thus is driven by code and design contributions to the core
 software.

 From the discussion we had at the summit that this ticket spawned from, it
 was mentioned that the recent rockstars section was hand curated. If
 someone writes 400 pages of documentation in one of the handbooks, writes
 a field guide post, or leads the development cycle in a non-developer
 role, why wouldn't they be part of that list? Also, I feel like limiting
 an official credits page to code contributions will perpetuate the problem
 that exists today. Fixing a one character typo in code is not greater than
 writing a field guide post. The problem is that we're not giving props to
 folks who put in tons of non-code related hours to further the project.
 One of the ideas that came up in our discussion was to create additional
 sections for documentation contributors, WordCamps, etc.

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