It is more of a question of fairness than accuracy. I don't see this as a removal of an individual's name, but a removal of a section on the site. And definitely the goal is not to offend any single person listed there, but simply to reflect the fact that this particular mechanism of acknowledgement is flawed.
We do have a formal mechanism of acknowledging a noticeable contribution - granting committership. Some other types of contribution (such as web site designs for instance), were done as work for hire, sponsored by one of the existing committers (if I am not mistaken, as I only know of the earlier versions of the design).
Andrus
On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:05 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> On 26/08/10 12:23 AM, Evgeny Ryabitskiy wrote:
>> Also like idea about treating everybody equally.
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> Sure. But removing people makes a strong statement (to those people who were removed and who might feel some pride in contributing toward an Apache project). Accuracy is useful, but not the final goal.
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