tech issues
Seriously pondering making an issue on Mastodon & Glitchsoc that is as follows:
* Create a Contributors file
create a file which contains the name, optionally email/handle of every single person who has contributed code to this project. This will help keep contributors having credit even if the project is hosted on other platforms than github or using different VCS systems than git. It is a silly assumption to assume that everyone is going to use the same VCS platform and hosting.
tech issues
hile in this case, yes Hiveway did decide to use github, this is still a good idea. There are lots of other VCS and lots of other platforms and pretending that git metadata is a good enough show of credit is ABSURD.
We need to make it so that everyone that works on these projects gets the credit they deserve, even in snapshots, even when it is eventually hosted on other VCS.
tech issues
I personally don't always like using git, even today i still sometimes use subversion or mercurial because for certain projects it works so much better for my workflow. [BUT I KNOW IM AN OUTLIER]
I don't like github all that much, I prefer to use bitbucket usually OR HOST IT MYSELF. People shouldn't lose out because of these sorts of decisions and we need to stop pretending that VCS metadata is good enough.