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Comment: Add co-authors to the contributors list

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  • For minor and major releases, consider writing a blog. Since the Apache blogs platform is now sunset, we've added a blog section to the Kafka website. Unfortunately this requires writing it in HTML, see the blog.html file in kafka-site.
  • It's nice to thank as many people as we can identify.  This script assumes that the previous release was 3.2.x and the current release is 3.3.0

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    # Configure the branch name for the current release and the previous release
    CURRENT_RELEASE_BRANCH=apache-kafka/3.3
    PREVIOUS_RELEASE_BRANCH=apache-kafka/3.2
    
    # Get the latest common commit between them
    MERGE_BASE=$(git merge-base $CURRENT_RELEASE_BRANCH $PREVIOUS_RELEASE_BRANCH)
    
    # List of all contributors
    git shortlog -sn --group=author --group=trailer:co-authored-by --no-merges "$MERGE_BASE..$CURRENT_RELEASE_BRANCH" | cut -f2 | sort --ignore-case | uniq > /tmp/kafka_contributors.txt
    
    # Copy the list (don't forget to drop the trailing comma)
    cat /tmp/kafka_contributors.txt | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's/,/, /g' | xclip -selection clipboard


  • Consider incorporating any suggestions from the dev thread until release is announced

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