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### General
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* 20 years ago: [Meet the new maintainer..](https://lore.kernel.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0507262004320.3227@g5.osdl.org/)
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On July 26 Jul 2005, so 20 years ago, Linus Torvalds announced on
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the mailing list that Junio Hamano accepted the maintainership of
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the Git project and that Junio "was the obvious choice". Linus said
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he wasn't dropping Git but he just prefered working on it as a
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contributor.
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Junio replied with an [A note from the new GIT maintainer](https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vmzo8ss2l.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net/)
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email where he acknowledged his new role as Git maintainer, thanked
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the community for their support and collaboration, and promised to
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take a more careful and deliberate approach in shepherding the
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project. He also said he would post his own patches to the mailing
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list for review before including them in the repository, and
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encouraged community feedback.
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* [[ANNOUNCE] Git Mini Summit at Open Source Summit Europe, Amsterdam, August 28th](https://lore.kernel.org/git/aGwHt9HCd86hVuKh@pks.im/)
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Patrick Steinhardt announced a Git Mini Summit co-located with the
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connect. For the lightning talks proposals should be sent to
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Patrick, while the possibility to have remote talks is still
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investigated.
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[Registration is open](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/features/co-located-events/#git-mini-summit-2025)
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for only the Git Mini Summit and for the Open Source Summit Europe including the Git Mini Summit.
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