Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git Merge Contributors Summit, April 8th, Paris

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 01:06:15PM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:

> And anyway in the "case-by-case as needed basis", you still have the
> problem to decide how much to pay back each one, in case people ask
> for more than what is available. In this case it could be seen as very
> unfair that rules are defined or negociated on the fly. (Though I
> agree that in the past it went very well, but then I think it can only
> improve things to have some rules defined at the beginning.)

I agree it would be nice to have some well-defined rules so that
everything is fair. But I do not know what those rules should be.

You have said things like "5 most important" in your email, but I do not
see any metric for defining that. Is it "git shortlog"? I am not sure
that is the best metric (try generating your own list and comparing it
with shortlog). Also, is it "shortlog" over all time, or "shortlog
--since=1.year.ago", or some other time period.

I had hoped by inviting people to express their need, that the
invitation would be equally open to everyone, and we could then get an
idea of the scope of need.

By the way, nobody has contacted me asking for travel money at this
point.

-Peff