Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.21.0-rc0

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2019, 20:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa7j7nwqw.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqef8jnxrf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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>> Hi Junio,
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> New contributors whose contributions weren't in v2.20.0 are as follows.
>>> Welcome to the Git development community!
>>> 
>>>   Arti Zirk, Brandon Richardson, Chayoung You, Denis Ovsienko, Erin
>>>   Dahlgren, Force Charlie, Frank Dana, Issac Trotts, Laura Abbott,
>>>   Patrick Hogg, Peter Osterlund, Shahzad Lone, and Slavica Djukic.
>>
>> Could you include Tanushree Tumane in that list? Granted, so far they
>> mostly cleaned up Pranit Bauva's patches, keeping the authorship, but
>> still...
>
> There is no provision for manual override in the machinery, so, no.

What I meant was "no, not easily and without risking fat-finger mistakes".

But we can give a shout-out to particular contributor(s) outside release announcement any time, with more personalized message instead of just an entry in a dry and bland list.

Thanks, Tanushree for your work on "git bisect--helper".