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Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

Subject: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

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5 messages between Apr 8, 2020 and Apr 9, 2020.

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Junio C Hamano· Apr 8, 2020, 01:17 UTC · lore

So, it was today 15 years ago that Linus announced the availability of the first tarball of Git.

Let me thank all the contributors, both long timers and relatively newer ones, for working on the system to help our users better.

But I should not forget to thank others who help us by doing things other than writing code. Writing code is not the only work on the software.

Some contributors are good at polishing documentation, which we the developer types are not particulary good at. Others help new developers to get up to speed, mentoring them in programs like the summer of code and Outreachy. There are folks who help us with legal work to manage and defend our trademark, which is taken care of by Software Freedom Conservancy, which the project is part of. Employers of "professional" Git contributors support the project by letting/making us work on Git, admittedly with their own agenda, but without necessarily being 'evil'---a particular area of interest they support, be it the lazy-clone scalability work, or more aggressive recursing into submodules, would eventually benefit all users.

Thanks all, and let's look forward to see the next 15 years be as wondreful years for Git as the past 15 years ;-)

Derrick Stolee· Apr 8, 2020, 01:26 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

On 4/7/2020 9:17 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> So, it was today 15 years ago that Linus announced the availability
> of the first tarball of Git.  
> 
> Let me thank all the contributors, both long timers and relatively
> newer ones, for working on the system to help our users better.

As a relatively newer one, let me thank YOU for doing all the hard work of maintaining the project.

> But I should not forget to thank others who help us by doing things
> other than writing code.  Writing code is not the only work on the
> software.

And maintaining is not just reviewing code and hitting "merge"! Your deep expertise helps guide our contributions both in our code but also to keep the philosophy of Git moving in the right direction.

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> Some contributors are good at polishing documentation, which we the
> developer types are not particulary good at.  Others help new
> developers to get up to speed, mentoring them in programs like the
> summer of code and Outreachy.  There are folks who help us with
> legal work to manage and defend our trademark, which is taken care
> of by Software Freedom Conservancy, which the project is part of.
> Employers of "professional" Git contributors support the project by
> letting/making us work on Git, admittedly with their own agenda, but
> without necessarily being 'evil'---a particular area of interest
> they support, be it the lazy-clone scalability work, or more
> aggressive recursing into submodules, would eventually benefit all
> users.

Since working on Git is a big part of my dayjob, I am always impressed by the contributors who volunteer their time to work on Git.

> Thanks all, and let's look forward to see the next 15 years be as
> wondreful years for Git as the past 15 years ;-)
Thank you! Here's to an excellent future.
-Stolee
Shourya Shukla· Apr 8, 2020, 07:15 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

I am an extremely new contributor as compared to most of us around here, basically just a newbie. I have learned a lot from y'all, be it ways to write code, understanding the flow of programs or learning new tricks to do stuff more efficiently.

I am so happy that the community was so welcoming to a newbie like me who knew relatively very less in comparison to everyone here. Thank you all for that :)

Thank you Junio for taking such a big responsibility over your shoulders, you are one of the reasons Git has come such a long way!

I hope to see many more birthdays with Git ;) Let's make this project even better! Happy birthday to all of us!

Regards, Shourya Shukla

Jeff King· Apr 8, 2020, 17:30 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 06:17:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> So, it was today 15 years ago that Linus announced the availability
> of the first tarball of Git.
> 
> Let me thank all the contributors, both long timers and relatively
> newer ones, for working on the system to help our users better.
> 
> But I should not forget to thank others who help us by doing things
> other than writing code.  Writing code is not the only work on the
> software.
And let us also not forget to thank any maintainers. :)
-Peff
Edward Thomson· Apr 9, 2020, 13:52 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 06:17:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> So, it was today 15 years ago that Linus announced the availability
> of the first tarball of Git.  
> 
> Let me thank all the contributors, both long timers and relatively
> newer ones, for working on the system to help our users better.
> 
> But I should not forget to thank others who help us by doing things
> other than writing code.  Writing code is not the only work on the
> software.

I'd like to extend my thanks, too, on behalf of libgit2. libgit2 was born from git, has taken some of its source code, and, of course, thrives in the ecosystem that git has built. Thanks to all the contributors to the git project for everything you've done. And a special thanks to Junio for tirelessly maintaining the project.

Cheers- -ed

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