Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> I believe the "official" way, such as it is, is you just put
> #leftoverbits in your E-Mail, then search the list archives,
> e.g. https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=%23leftoverbits

I think that technique has been around long enough to be called a
recognised way, but I do not think it is "the" official way.  It is
one of the efforts to allow us remember what we might want to work
on, and focuses on not wasting too much efforts in curating.
Another effort to allow us remember is http://crbug.com/git that is
run by Jonathan Nieder.

Anybody can participate in curating the latter.  The former is
uncurated and deliberately kept informal, but will stay a usable way
until clueless people catch up with the practice and mark any random
garbage they come up with with the marking word.  I myself try to
refrain from using it when I raise the idea/issue for the first time
to avoid "ah, it turns out that it is not such a great idea after
thinking about it for a while"--rather I try to limit my use to my
responses as a reaction to somebody else's idea/issue.  That way, I
can make sure that messages with the marking word from me has idea
supported by at least two people, one of which is known to me to
have a good taste, so mailing list search "from:me #leftoverbits"
would stay meaningful.