Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Ulrich Gemkow" <ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 10:18:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180904171850.GA34268@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1sag7wxx.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

>> I believe the "official" way, such as it is, is you just put
>> #leftoverbits in your E-Mail, then search the list archives,
>> e.g. https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=%23leftoverbits
>
> I think that technique has been around long enough to be called a
> recognised way, but I do not think it is "the" official way.  It is
> one of the efforts to allow us remember what we might want to work
> on, and focuses on not wasting too much efforts in curating.
> Another effort to allow us remember is http://crbug.com/git that is
> run by Jonathan Nieder.
>
> Anybody can participate in curating the latter.

Yes, exactly.

Ævar, if you would like to keep better track of #leftoverbits, please
feel free to make use of https://crbug.com/git/new. It even has a
"leftover bit" template you can use.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan