From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: Promoting Git developers (was: Bashing freelancers) Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 08:18:37 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: David Kastrup , Junio C Hamano , git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 07 08:19:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YU915-0004ks-9G for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 08:19:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754921AbbCGHSi (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Mar 2015 02:18:38 -0500 Received: from mail-ie0-f177.google.com ([209.85.223.177]:41590 "EHLO mail-ie0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753498AbbCGHSi (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Mar 2015 02:18:38 -0500 Received: by iecrl12 with SMTP id rl12so8472009iec.8 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 23:18:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=HQX4FIi1oBg0t2JUZIX4LhRqaAFnMv1Ao/evPwLhdcw=; b=z6cDfY+ZEIdaSQRRUVg6Aes6+hKMOe5+MdLGAIquzi8lXli26jViwKDrZBkleiFFhc miNJSUB2bqkLOWDow8KEADwIrxcBpu5cZFKlVyZKJLvIF5T2muebVjeuMztsNfu3uaaz jto8iRV0/vgV1ZNhzQW8N3kHc7HEkpZ/YRDZlPzPU1/ty+nT1790dbCCO8aIywUtGcZE 6sDNhOVORO2Z8LuYUmVSgXkZwnJHVzf4PAMDGm4OpSPCJ18+FQ+oZ6AljHaahWHcVq3i SUDdE00aR53NfKBcBwodi1KTHCe1bQLFXVAu2lhaH2TxMlsyruwmGFcobwrx/roSweZV rhDg== X-Received: by 10.50.253.12 with SMTP id zw12mr59046453igc.24.1425712717311; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 23:18:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.245.144 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 23:18:37 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:41 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > At some point of time I think it may be worth reevaluating the toxic > atmosphere against freelancers doing Git development. My opinion on this is that the Git community has not been good especially lately at promoting its own developers. Some facts: * There used to be an AUTHORS section in each of the git man page. They have been removed. The rational was that they were hard to maintain and the information about authors was easily available elsewhere. * There used to be a nice page on git-scm.com, the main Git web site, listing the authors and how many commits they had contributed. It has been removed. * In the "A note from the maintainer" emails that Junio regularly sends, the last section about "Other people's trees, trusted lieutenants and credits." seems to have been truncated for some time and doesn't show anymore the nice "credits" words it used to show. Maybe this is a bug. * https://www.openhub.net/p/git/contributors/summary seems to give me a "504 Gateway Time-out" right now :-( * On the Git Merge web site, we can see that none of the speakers seems to have been a very active contributor to git.git None of these facts is a big issue in itself for me, but I think the trend is very sad, and I would be happy if we could discuss here or at the Git Merge (or both) about ways to improve in this area. Best, Christian.