Re: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 4/7/2020 9:17 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> So, it was today 15 years ago that Linus announced the availability
> of the first tarball of Git.  
> 
> Let me thank all the contributors, both long timers and relatively
> newer ones, for working on the system to help our users better.

As a relatively newer one, let me thank YOU for doing all the hard
work of maintaining the project.

> But I should not forget to thank others who help us by doing things
> other than writing code.  Writing code is not the only work on the
> software.

And maintaining is not just reviewing code and hitting "merge"! Your
deep expertise helps guide our contributions both in our code but
also to keep the philosophy of Git moving in the right direction.

> Some contributors are good at polishing documentation, which we the
> developer types are not particulary good at.  Others help new
> developers to get up to speed, mentoring them in programs like the
> summer of code and Outreachy.  There are folks who help us with
> legal work to manage and defend our trademark, which is taken care
> of by Software Freedom Conservancy, which the project is part of.
> Employers of "professional" Git contributors support the project by
> letting/making us work on Git, admittedly with their own agenda, but
> without necessarily being 'evil'---a particular area of interest
> they support, be it the lazy-clone scalability work, or more
> aggressive recursing into submodules, would eventually benefit all
> users.

Since working on Git is a big part of my dayjob, I am always
impressed by the contributors who volunteer their time to work on
Git.

> Thanks all, and let's look forward to see the next 15 years be as
> wondreful years for Git as the past 15 years ;-)

Thank you! Here's to an excellent future.

-Stolee