Re: Acknowledgements in the Manual

[Søren Hauberg]

John W. Eaton skrev:
> On 17-Apr-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> |    In the Preface of the manual there is a section called 
> | "Acknowledgements". This section contains an autogenerated list of 
> | people who have contributed to Octave. I don't mind seeing my own name 
> | in print, but I think the list of people look so autogenerated that it 
> | should be removed. If it stays in, I think it at least could look a 
> | little less autogenerated by
>
> The list was generated by extracting all the names I could find from
> all the ChangeLog entries.  In the past, we had a shorter list of
> people and a summary of their contributions.  I'd be happy to go back
> to that kind of list, but deciding who has made a contribution
> significant enough to be included in the list is not something I
> really want to do.
I can understand that. My concern is just that the manual starts in a 
pretty boring way (a list of names is hardly interesting unless you're 
on the list). Could the list appear in an appendix instead?

> |    I think it's great to give thanks to contributors, but perhaps this 
> | list could appear only on the webpage?
>
> I think it should also appear in the manual.  Maybe there is a better
> way to format it?  Perhaps in columns using @multitable?
That would properly help quite a bit.

Søren