From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:46:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <54FDA6B5.8050505@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Michael J Gruber , David Kastrup , git , Jeff King , Scott Chacon To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 15 09:46:39 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YX4By-0002w9-Sq for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:46:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751500AbbCOIqe (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:46:34 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f173.google.com ([209.85.213.173]:33967 "EHLO mail-ig0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751245AbbCOIq3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:46:29 -0400 Received: by igbue6 with SMTP id ue6so14979274igb.1 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 01:46:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=GlJkohTgdQxKqc1saqk1NqWL3Tpyvp+GeOAaC/uWz+s=; b=G5xFuS63t+olGnStIQiPF1SdYByinRxugQigaRaK230Z+9KRzGoAdcrqdhaqC3ELU4 5wZ9gwYGla04n4T+mKtQ0fyElVBxlDtEQ0d1ZiEoMd3hH1pIFS8Z4Rgw9tT90fSvg5J3 /114q7/GoOa/zdwcPBzbS1fiQm3LhyCbSY4fD/gtSh22CyL6TL6fTz9h58Guk9KyyPsr dKn0I8USLqUvFwlZzC8++hj5gwWXlWRpj+iCw/wXKj6LY8Ag0W1Cf/0WPtTEg3dXX2i7 RlBZlBFO2URaeWLFs/rRVuJ4am4B04zD/Iwln+JTi8qGH5Cx3VBxoSCBBPtjY1tAIch6 HIVQ== X-Received: by 10.50.79.163 with SMTP id k3mr124420492igx.30.1426409188114; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 01:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.50.245.144 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 01:46:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Christian Couder writes: > >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Junio C Hamano 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.