From c0cdfd78fb887eea14b841cefad70bad24195ac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alya Abbott Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 22:26:46 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] contributor docs: Tweak wording in "Counting contributions" intro. --- docs/contributing/counting-contributions.md | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/contributing/counting-contributions.md b/docs/contributing/counting-contributions.md index 4092f28949..9fb313ca74 100644 --- a/docs/contributing/counting-contributions.md +++ b/docs/contributing/counting-contributions.md @@ -1,17 +1,16 @@ # Counting contributions -The [Zulip team page](https://zulip.com/team/) displays statistics -about contributors to Zulip and its projects. We display these -statistics prominently because they are easy to compute and can be fun -and motivating for some of our contributors; we do not consider them -to be a good way to measure someone's code contributions to a software -project. +The [Zulip team page](https://zulip.com/team/) displays commit counts for +contributors to Zulip projects. We display these statistics prominently because +they are easy to compute, and can be fun and motivating for some of our +contributors. -More importantly, many invaluable contributions may not result in the -contributor authoring any code at all, including design, feedback, -translations, bug reports, participation in our [development -community][dev-community]. These non-code contributions are essential -to making the Zulip project successful. +We do not consider commit count to be a good way to measure someone's +contributions to a software project. Many invaluable contributions may not +result in the contributor authoring any code at all, including design, feedback, +translations, bug reports, helping new contributors, and other types of +participation in our [development community][dev-community]. These non-code +contributions are essential to making the Zulip project successful. Thus, Zulip's policy is to always express appreciation for non-code contributions to the project whenever we discuss code contribution