Re: Promoting Git developers

> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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 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).