Re: Promoting Git developers

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jason St. John" <jstjohn@purdue.edu>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:15:43 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D38Lx5zvpOGPvnYVNXh4EYbF+rLL8kwb9pwP7EqCqfxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd24g6uf1.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ... We may want to acknowledge review efforts as well, by
>> grepping Helped-by:, Reviewed-by:...
>
> Agreed. Something along the lines of
>
>     $ git shortlog --no-merges -s -n -t Helped-by -t Reviewed-by v2.3.0..

A quick grep/uniq/sort gives this

   1512     Acked-by
    537     Reviewed-by
    389     Reported-by
    317     Helped-by
    147     Tested-by
    143     Suggested-by
     97     Noticed-by
     78     Improved-by
     49     Thanks-to
     40     Mentored-by
     23     Requested-by
     21     Acked-By
     20     Inspired-by
     18     Based-on-patch-by
      9     Explained-by
      9     Contributions-by

It looks like people are quite creative. I think all these "*-by" (so
-t supports wildcards) and Thanks-to: could be also considered as
contribution.
-- 
Duy