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Promoting Git developers (was: Bashing freelancers)

From
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 7, 2015, 07:18 UTC
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Hi,
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:41 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> At some point of time I think it may be worth reevaluating the toxic
> atmosphere against freelancers doing Git development.

My opinion on this is that the Git community has not been good especially lately at promoting its own developers.

Some facts:
* There used to be an AUTHORS section in each of the git man page.
They have been removed. The rational was that they were hard to
maintain and the information about authors was easily available
elsewhere.
* There used to be a nice page on git-scm.com, the main Git web site,
listing the authors and how many commits they had contributed. It has
been removed.
* In the "A note from the maintainer" emails that Junio regularly
sends, the last section about "Other people's trees, trusted
lieutenants and credits." seems to have been truncated for some time
and doesn't show anymore the nice "credits" words it used to show.
Maybe this is a bug.
* https://www.openhub.net/p/git/contributors/summary seems to give me a
"504 Gateway Time-out" right now :-(
* On the Git Merge web site, we can see that none of the speakers
seems to have been a very active contributor to git.git

None of these facts is a big issue in itself for me, but I think the trend is very sad, and I would be happy if we could discuss here or at the Git Merge (or both) about ways to improve in this area.

Best, Christian.

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