Ticket #3685: contributing.diff

docs/contributing.txt

@@ -303 +303 @@
           def my_view(req, foo):
               # ...
 
-    * Please don't put your name in the code. While we appreciate all
-      contributions to Django, our policy is not to publish individual
-      developer names in code -- for instance, at the top of Python modules.
+    * Our policy is to keep the names of developers and contributors
+      in the ``AUTHORS`` file distributed with Django, so please don't
+      include your name in the actual code, but feel free to include a
+      diff of the ``AUTHORS`` file in your patch to add your name
+      there.
 
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