From 7f9ef2a585ffec746d0392f3edb2068bbb9c57b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucas Charles Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:27:46 +0000 Subject: Docs: Update contribution closing policy to include community attribution --- doc/development/contributing/index.md | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/development/contributing/index.md b/doc/development/contributing/index.md index bfe1ef75914..b39c302453b 100644 --- a/doc/development/contributing/index.md +++ b/doc/development/contributing/index.md @@ -52,9 +52,12 @@ for audiences of all ages. If a contributor is no longer actively working on a submitted merge request we can decide that the merge request will be finished by one of our [Merge request coaches][team] or close the merge request. We make this decision -based on how important the change is for our product vision. If a Merge request +based on how important the change is for our product vision. If a merge request coach is going to finish the merge request we assign the -~"coach will finish" label. +~"coach will finish" label. When a team member picks up a community contribution, +we credit the original author by adding a changelog entry crediting the author +and optionally include the original author on at least one of the commits +within the MR. ## Helping others -- cgit v1.2.1