On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:05:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <p...@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.
Heh. Actually, after writing that, I almost clarified, but did not think anybody was that interested. But since you replied...:) Seeing my name in "shortlog" was nice, but not that exciting. I submitted a patch, it was taken, and of course it ends up in any automated lists of authors. What was much more rewarding was being mentioned specifically in "A note from the maintainer" as a helpful person. That had much more value because: 1. It was one of a handful of names. 2. It was picked by a human. So in that sense, it is quite the opposite of including shortlog output in the release announcements (I still think the shortlog thing we have been discussing is a good thing, but not at the same level). I do not know that it is worth having a "Best of 2015" Git awards ceremony, but it is sometimes nice to thank people personally when you appreciate their efforts. I sometimes mail people off-list to do so. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
