[Biopython-dev] code credits

[Kyle Ellrott]

I would agree with that.  Drawing from broad stereotypes, I would think that
a majority of contributors are academic and would be most interested in
adding things to their CV.  So acknowledgment would be of great value to
them at no real cost to the Biopython project.  Plus there's the old idea
that the more authors a paper has the more important it must be.

Kyle

I strongly encourage you to list anyone who has contributed a patch, no
> matter how small.  This has worked very well for the Sage project (
> www.sagemath.org) where credit is given to all contributors and reviewers
> (every patch must be reviewed by at least one other person).  For example
> see:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-announce/msg/bcf5591837068b5f
>
> Marshall Hampton
> Department of Mathematics and Statistics
> University of Minnesota, Duluth
>
>