Re: [RFC] GIT user survey

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jun 24, 2006, 22:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20060624220904.GW21864@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606241344450.6483@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:52:04PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...

> Pasky, the homepage seems a bit pointless. Each individual page is so 
> small that splitting it up into six different pages is just 
> counter-productive.

Wow, finally some more feedback on the homepage!

> I'd almost suggest making it _one_ page, perhaps with some shortcuts 
> within it (ie a "http://git.or.cz/index.html#tools" shortcut within the 
> page instead of having a separate "http://git.or.cz/tools.html" page)

Good point. When designing the multi-page layout I expected much more stuff to end up on the homepage but it sort of didn't happen and now the Wiki seems to work pretty well, so I have folded it all back to a single page. I ain't no webdesign-ka but it could've turned out worse; as usual, I'm taking patches.

The menubar should be now actually useful for quick navigation between various Git-related resources (going to Git's gitweb using this path should be much faster than over kernel.org, especially when gitweb.cgi has its bad days over there).

> I don't know about everybody else, but I get irritated at webpages that 
> force me to just switch to another page to get any information. It's like 
> how some web journalists split up a story over 20 pages, and each page is 
> just a few paragraphs and some graphic (and the commercials, of course).

We could put up some commercials as well and use them for funding pizza distributed in a round-robin fashion between the developers.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.