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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:13:40 +0700
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> wrote:
> Or if that would make the release notes too cumbersome to review, what
> about using systemd's method? systemd's release notes include a
> "contributions from" section at the very end that lists everyone with
> a patch included in the release.

Gnome projects do this too. They also separate translators from other
contributions, but I don't think if we need to do that. I think the
reason behind is translations go through the translator coordinator in
gnome, who does the committing, so "git shortlog" does not really list
translators. We may want to acknowledge review efforts as well, by
grepping Helped-by:, Reviewed-by:...
-- 
Duy