Re: Stupid idea
> The problem is, who decided if a contribution is valid and what it's worth, if anything?
Nobody can. Whether software is useful or not is entirely dependent on your point of view.
I certainly wouldn't want anybody to base a credit on such criteria anyway.
For every successful software project, many others have failed and gone by the wayside.
I would award this credit for time spent on any software credit that was made available under a permissive license and publicly accessible.