Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Seeing my name in "shortlog" was nice, but not that exciting. I > submitted a patch, it was taken, and of course it ends up in any > automated lists of authors. What was much more rewarding was being > mentioned specifically in "A note from the maintainer" as a helpful > person. That had much more value because: > > 1. It was one of a handful of names. > > 2. It was picked by a human. > > So in that sense, it is quite the opposite of including shortlog output > in the release announcements (I still think the shortlog thing we have > been discussing is a good thing, but not at the same level). Yes, and that cuts both ways, unfortunately. There always will be "I am doing more reviews than X and my reviews are higher quality. Why was X singled out and got thanked but not me?", "X is really doing a good job reviewing in this cycle, but could other people who send reviews of lessor quality (to my mind) feel that it is unjustified if I thanked X and nobody else?", etc. A mechanically generated list avoids these issues, but the satisfaction you get from being on the list is not very high, exactly because it is not hand picked. > I do not know that it is worth having a "Best of 2015" Git awards > ceremony, but it is sometimes nice to thank people personally when > you appreciate their efforts. I sometimes mail people off-list to > do so. Yeah, I do the same, but revealing that we do so would defeat what we tried to achieve by doing so off-list in the first place. Now those who haven't got such a piece of e-mail for a while can start to suspect that they have fallen out of favour or something ;-(. -- 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