From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:05:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers
Message-ID: <xmqq61a64xg8.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150311073129.GA5947@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I spent many years as a "type C" contributor, and I remember how nice it
> was to see my name mentioned occasionally as a useful person.

I guess that everybody is different ;-)

After throwing a small patch at ROCKbox (git.rockbox.org) back when
they were still hosted on Subversion, I felt somewhat ashamed to see
my name appear in their CREDITS file because the change I made was
so insignificant. In such a flat list like that, you cannot tell who
made significant contributions over time and who are just a casual
drive-by contributor like me, unless you know the community and who
are important in the community.