Contributor policies about collection

[workergnome]

Man, that's a fascinating question. Let me run that one up the food chain and see how people feel about it.

[workergnome]

Just keeping you in the loop—we're working through solving this problem internally, and should hopefully have a solution by the end of the week. One of our questions is how best to credit people? Any thoughts on this? It's reasonably easy to add a name to a CONTRIBUTORS.md file—is that sufficient, or do we think that will cause more issues than it's worth?

[mdlincoln]

What about adding them in a NEWS file, whenever you integrate changes upstream and reflect them to the repo? That way the nature of the change is documented and announced alongside the name of the contributor.

[workergnome]

Interesting, but tricky due to workflows...Once we've gotten a correction and handed it off to the subject matter expert, it will be difficult to know when those changes would actually be included in our data release, since the goal is to have the actual releases by automated. Right now, I think we're going to just go with a CONTRIBUTORS file, and maintain it manually, see how it works.

[mdlincoln]

Fair enough. I'm interested to see how you'll automate it all!

[workergnome]

Thanks for the input—feel free to review the changes to the README and the CONTRIBUTORS file in this release and critique again! This is really helpful for us.