Re: Promoting Git developers

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:46:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD2ba3jQSsQrGGWM-8HTfGR+zZhmbkxiEBhSR+Ho=B0MuA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfv9b5krc.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would suspect that those who agree with you would appreciate if
>>> you or somebody volunteered to act as our CKDO (chief kudos
>>> distribution officer).  I do not think I have enough time to do that
>>> well.  One good place to start might be to scan the list and
>>> summarize something like the following on weekly or monthly basis,
>>> as these are not something you can get by pointing people to "git
>>> shortlog" output.
>>>
>>>  - Those who gave helpful review comments, "how about going this
>>>    way" illustration patches, etc.  Bonus points to those who helped
>>>    onboarding newcomers.
>>>
>>>  - Those who asked pertinent questions on common pain points, and
>>>    those who answered them helpfully.
>>
>> Ok, I can start something about this two points every week or every
>> few week. It would be best if I could get help from at least one
>> person as I think it is a lot of work.
>
> No kidding; even though it may no longer be an impossibly large task
> as in the infrationary epoch reported in the Git Traffic, this forum
> is still a high traffic place.

I wrote something about a potential Git Rev News news letter:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/15

Peff, could you give me write access so that I don't need to send pull requests?
If some people are interested to contribute even if it is only
sporadically, I would suggest they ask for write access too.

>> I also appreciate very much that you are willing to improve the
>> release notes by adding a summary with people's names.
>
> Just in case you misunderstood, I do not think it is a good idea to
> add names to release notes and I will not do so.
>
> I was and am planning add the list of contributors at the end of the
> e-mail when the release notes is sent out, i.e. in the "Announce"
> message that is sent to the list (and CC'ed to lwn.net).

Ok, that is already very nice.

Thanks,
Christian.