Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

[Junio C Hamano]

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 ;-)

Re: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

[Derrick Stolee]

On 4/7/2020 9:17 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.

> 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

Re: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

[Shourya Shukla]

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

Re: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

[Jeff King]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 06:17:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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

Re: Happy birthday to all of us ;-)

[Edward Thomson]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 06:17:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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