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Linux has the CREDITS file where you end up once you drop out of maintainership of some subsystem:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/CREDITS

(e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/054c4610bd05)

Ha - the last comment on that CREDITS list is pretty funny =)

Definitely worth the full scroll.

Poor Leonard stuck at third to last - has to be a big hit for someone with a name like that.

Who is "significant"? If you make many people significant, you have a hall of fame so big that nobody can remember anybody. If you make few people significant, then most FOSS labor is again performed by unsung heroes.

I think this is an amazing idea. This needs to exist.

Google publishes a list a few times a year with their Open Source Peer Bonus scheme:

https://opensource.google/docs/growing/peer-bonus/

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/10/announcing-latest-...

NetBSD has dedicated particular releases to developers who died.