On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> I would suspect that those who agree with you would appreciate if >>> you or somebody volunteered to act as our CKDO (chief kudos >>> distribution officer). I do not think I have enough time to do that >>> well. One good place to start might be to scan the list and >>> summarize something like the following on weekly or monthly basis, >>> as these are not something you can get by pointing people to "git >>> shortlog" output. >>> >>> - Those who gave helpful review comments, "how about going this >>> way" illustration patches, etc. Bonus points to those who helped >>> onboarding newcomers. >>> >>> - Those who asked pertinent questions on common pain points, and >>> those who answered them helpfully. >> >> Ok, I can start something about this two points every week or every >> few week. It would be best if I could get help from at least one >> person as I think it is a lot of work. > > No kidding; even though it may no longer be an impossibly large task > as in the infrationary epoch reported in the Git Traffic, this forum > is still a high traffic place. I wrote something about a potential Git Rev News news letter: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/15 Peff, could you give me write access so that I don't need to send pull requests? If some people are interested to contribute even if it is only sporadically, I would suggest they ask for write access too. >> I also appreciate very much that you are willing to improve the >> release notes by adding a summary with people's names. > > Just in case you misunderstood, I do not think it is a good idea to > add names to release notes and I will not do so. > > I was and am planning add the list of contributors at the end of the > e-mail when the release notes is sent out, i.e. in the "Announce" > message that is sent to the list (and CC'ed to lwn.net). Ok, that is already very nice. Thanks, Christian. -- 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