Re: Official Git Homepage change? Re: git-scm.com

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jul 27, 2008, 12:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20080727123511.GZ10151@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p6dnv5k.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:09:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> For me personally, pages outside the wiki have never felt like "the
> official git homepage", not because the contents you prepared were
> inadequate, but because I did not see much community participation to help
> enrich it.

I agree; I think this might have been in part because the Wiki was so easy to use and change; I did receive some patches, but not any overwhelming amount.

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> So I wish the new site success, but the definition of success from my
> point of view is not how many random visitors it will attract, but how
> well the site makes the contributors (both to git software itself, and to
> the site's contents) feel welcomed.  Maybe in time it will become
> successful enough by _my_ definition of success, and I may recommend
> kernel.org folks to point at it from http://git.kernel.org/ (link with
> text "overview") if/when that happens, and I may start mentioning them in
> the "Note".  We'll see.

The question is, however,is whether to make the _current_ overview link target simply alias at the new site _now_, though. :-) It seems to be a waste to maintain two websites in parallel, as well as actively harmful and confusing for people interested in Git, as I tried to explain in my other mail. That's why this subthread was born.

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> >   The negatives section writeup is longer, but in fact I think the
> > positives win here; I also have a bit of bad conscience about not giving
> > git.or.cz the amount of time it would deserve...
> 
> Let me thank you for maintaining not just git.or.cz/ but also repo.or.cz/
> and the wiki.

Thanks, I appreciate this, though pretty much all of this sort of popped up simply because I had root access to a bored server. ;-) Especially wrt. the wiki, I think it's mainly Jakub Narebski who is keeping it together content-wise and keeps bugging me if it falls apart technically.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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