Re: Contributor Summit planning

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 04:06:23PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> I very much regret sending that 'git log' command without some further
> explanation.
> 
> It was only meant as a *very* rough shortlist of people in the context
> of a discussion of why some active contributors don't come to the
> contributor summit. I.e. whether that's because of the location, timing
> or whatever.
> 
> Any output from such a command definitely doesn't mean "you shouldn't
> come to the contributor summit because this one-liner doesn't list
> you".

Amen.

> I only meant to suggest that it would be interesting as a heuristic to
> solicit feedback from people who *are* very active contributors to the
> main git project who don't show up, to see why that is. Only because it
> might be indicative of why some people who'd otherwise don't show up
> don't show up.

I've bugged people privately in the past to see if they want to come,
and I think the limiting factor is usually just time/effort to travel.

-Peff