On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> But still, I am not convinced that the release notes is a good place >>> to do this, and would be happier if you can think of a better venue. >> >> "This change has been contributed by an independent developer on a >> contingency base. To make this approach work, please contact him if you >> consider it worth recompensating." > > I write things under three personalities. As just one of the people > active in the Git development community, as the maintainer of the > project, and saying things on behalf of "the Git project". > > The distinction between the latter two may be subtle, but it matters > to me. And in my mind, I write the Release Notes on behalf of the > project. > > * The performance of "git blame" has been greatly improved. Thanks > David Kastrup for his huge effort. > > is perhaps as far as I can go in that capacity, without singling out > one contributor among 80+ contributors with changes between 1.9 and > 2.0 (among which a dozen or so have more than 10 patches---some are > trivial and patch count alone does not do justice, though) with > similar "pay them to show your appreciation" pleas. > > I however feel that I can certainly do that as an active (and highly > visible) contributor, and even as the maintainer. > > I guess we probably can add "See $URL if you are interested in his > further plans" after that two-line item and let you write whatever > you want at that page pointed at by the URL, though. > Some projects, for example samba, provide a dedicated page on the project web site where vendors, and I think individuals, that provide services can list their information : http://www.samba.org/samba/support/ Would this perhaps be a better solution? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html