TB Credits

We should have a page of contributors, either on the website or Tor browser. Tor Community members, translators etc

changed milestone to %website redesign

added component::webpages/website milestone::website redesign owner::traumschule priority::medium severity::normal status::needs-review type::enhancement labels

Having this on the website sounds like a good idea as this does not seem to be a Tor Browser-only thing. (However, I think having a credits page for specific Tor Browser contributions inside Tor Browser seems to be a thing we could want to have, too.)

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Component: - Select a component to Webpages/Website

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Milestone: N/A to website redesign

I think this is important. One approach is to list contributors one page based on the existing projects lists. I remember a neat guide on github to represent all people active in a project not only coders (implementations: all-contributors-cli and github-contributors-list). With respect to the long list of repositories. This could become quite comprehensive.

Assigning ti myself to not forget about it after the TBB 8 release. If I do, please grab it.

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Owner: N/A to traumschule
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When i wondered how to collect all contributors and came across https://github.com/arthuredelstein/tor-browser/graphs/contributors https://github.com/torproject/tor/graphs/contributors

i also tried git log --pretty=oneline --format="%an <%ae>" on tor-browser.git but it gave me 364263 lines with a lot of duplicates. Also uniq -D did not help much. Maybe someone else has an idea.

What would be the best way all contributors on a page, sorted by the number of commits like on the GH page? Maybe an AUTHORS file in the repository?

update: github announced to depreacte some of their services, this could affect the v3 api for contributors.

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Status: assigned to needs_information

ok, i'll create a file listing all contributors in alphabetical order. if we want to be more specific we have something to build upon. happy to read your ideas!

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Status: needs_information to assigned

Credits for what?

Tor has many umbrella projects -- is the idea to just make a page that is a jumble of all the contributors of all the projects?

It seems like each project should handle its own credits.

I was thinking of tor browser as in the description, either for a section on the tb page with a link from the download page, or on a separate one. But from my understanding the list has to be created first (to be added to the repository as well), so the final destination may stay undefined until then. edit: just found http://dissociatedpress.net/stop-using-github-as-a-measure-of-open-source-contributions/

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Summary: Credits page to TB Credits

.oO(I want the credits to come out with an easter egg. old school style.)

Shall we also show the email address? Should the list be sorted alphabetically instead? Should it link projects that are part of the bundle like tor and PTs?

My instinctive answer is to add an AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS file to each repository and list the projects with a link to git at the end.

= Tor Browser since 2016 //List of committers since 2016 sorted by the number of commits.//

Authors Nicolas Vigier Georg Koppen Sukhbir Singh David Fifield Arthur Edelstein Kathy Brade Richard Pospesel

Contributors Tom Ritter William Budington Sina Rabbani Patrick O'Doherty Isis Lovecruft Igor Oliveira Ben Burrill Arlo Breault

= Parts / Previous https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser-spec.git/ https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbutton.git/ https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-launcher.git/ https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/ https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/ https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/rbm.git/

https://gitweb.torproject.org/vidalia.git/ https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/gitian-builder.git/

= Script git log --pretty=oneline --format="%an"|sort|uniq -c|sort -gr|cut -c9-

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Status: assigned to needs_information
Cc: N/A to tbb-team

Replying to traumschule:

Thank you for looking into this, traumschule! :)

Shall we also show the email address?

No, I don't think people should be rewarded for their efforts with spam. :)

Should the list be sorted alphabetically instead?

Yes, I like this idea. I don't think we should try to separate "authors" from "contributors" because the distinction is unclear.

Should it link projects that are part of the bundle like tor and PTs?

I think so!

My instinctive answer is to add an AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS file to each repository and list the projects with a link to git at the end.

https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git/

There are a lot of Tor Browser-related repositories, so we'll need to look at committers of all sorts. Also, many people have contributed very important ways, including design, translation, testing, admin, community building, documentation, metrics, etc. We should give all people involved credit for their efforts because they help make Tor Browser possible. Also, I would like to give credit to our Mozilla collaborators who have contributed so much to our anti-tracking and cross-compilation efforts.

And, given that Tor Browser is the product that most people download, I would propose including contributors to core Tor as well. Let's be inclusive as we can!

We could consider adding some (brief) information about what each person has done. Such as "design", "metrics", "Tor Browser", "tor", "Spanish translation", etc.

Replying to arthuredelstein:

Shall we also show the email address?

No, I don't think people should be rewarded for their efforts with spam. :)

Should the list be sorted alphabetically instead?

Yes, I like this idea. I don't think we should try to separate "authors" from "contributors" because the distinction is unclear.

Great, this makes it simple: git shortlog --format='%an' -s|cut -c8-|sort. To avoid appearance of the same person with different name notations the .mailcap feature can help (git help shortlog).

Should it link projects that are part of the bundle like tor and PTs?

I think so!

My instinctive answer is to add an AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS file to each repository and list the projects with a link to git at the end.

https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git/

There are a lot of Tor Browser-related repositories, so we'll need to look at committers of all sorts. Also, many people have contributed very important ways, including design, translation, testing, admin, community building, documentation, metrics, etc. We should give all people involved credit for their efforts because they help make Tor Browser possible. Also, I would like to give credit to our Mozilla collaborators who have contributed so much to our anti-tracking and cross-compilation efforts.

And, given that Tor Browser is the product that most people download, I would propose including contributors to core Tor as well. Let's be inclusive as we can!

We could consider adding some (brief) information about what each person has done. Such as "design", "metrics", "Tor Browser", "tor", "Spanish translation", etc. This is the tricky part and i have the feeling a wiki page might be better suited to collect all project links and working areas. What do you think about if we use doc/TorBrowser/Contributors as a start? I would take care to fill it over time and start asking around how people want to be listed, or at best everyone can change their entry at will.

edit: i wrote a script that a created a file with ~6000 names. in the end the list could look like this https://www.mozilla.org/credits/

First draft: doc/TorBrowser/Contributors

How shall we proceed to create a more or less complete list of non-code contributors?

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Type: defect to enhancement
Cc: tbb-team to tbb-team, alison, antonela, daniela, emmapeel, hiro
Status: needs_information to needs_review

Replying to traumschule:

First draft: doc/TorBrowser/Contributors

It seems tor-browser includes the lists of all firefox contributors, which is a very big list. Maybe we could list only the authors of Tor Browser patches and add a link to https://www.mozilla.org/credits/ ?

Replying to boklm:

It seems tor-browser includes the lists of all firefox contributors, which is a very big list. Maybe we could list only the authors of Tor Browser patches and add a link to https://www.mozilla.org/credits/ ? This sounds like a good idea but i don't know how to only select our commits. Do you have a hint?

Also several names are doubled in different variations and it's a lot of work to merge them with .mailmap files in each repository. I have the feeling this is beyond the scope of this ticket and would require individual issues for each project.

mentioned in issue #27458 (moved)

moved to tpo/web/trac#25475 (closed)

mentioned in issue tpo/web/trac#27458 (moved)

mentioned in issue tpo/web/tpo#128 (closed)