Re: git as an sfc member project

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 1, 2010, 10:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20100301105821.GB25069@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <201002261656.47740.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:56:44PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> > > I wouldn't say I am "key developer"...
> > 
> > Well, you have a lot of commits, anyway. ;)
> 
> Well, there are mainly (310 out of 398 in whole lifetime of git) about
> gitweb, which is rather disconnected subsystem of git, started by
> Kay Sievers.

True. In the final version I included you, but I marked up people with their areas (so Paul is marked as "gitk", you are "gitweb", I note that Shawn is the git-gui maintainer as well as the JGit maintainer, etc).

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> > Yeah, I thought about that list, but it is very long. Honestly even
> > putting ten people on the list seems long to me. I think git has a very
> > different distribution of committers than many other projects.
> 
> Well, it at least lists contributors by subsystem...

Good point. I kept the list in the application itself more compact, but gave a link to git-scm.com/about (as Julian suggested) for a longer list of committers, and directly linked to Junio's MaintNotes to get more details on what people are working on.

-Peff