Re: Planet git USELESS

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Feb 27, 2009, 14:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20090227141104.GE6791@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20090227160259.6117@qkholland.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:02:59PM +0600, Quim K Holland wrote:

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> Hey, I looked at http://planetgit.org/ site and
> I hoped to find something useful but there are
> only two dudes listed there. How strange nobody from
> this project blogs about what he is doing.
> 
> If you keep a planet site, make it useful for
> the rest of us to read, REALLY!!!!

Your mistake is in assuming that the folks who set up the planetgit.org site are talking to the git developers on this list; anyone can set up a domain name, "planet<foo>.org", without necessarily being officially tied to project <foo>.

The planetgit.org site does say that people who want to be added to the site should contact webmaster@planetgit.org; you might want to do the same if you're not satisified with the content on that site.

I also suspect that you might have gotten a more positive reaction if you said something along the lines of "hey, there seems to be this planetgit.org site which isn't tracking a lot of blogs; could some of the git developers consider sending their rss feed to webmaster@planetgit.org so they can track your blog entries?"

Instead, you sound like a demanding *sshole, and people generally don't respond well to that.

Best regards,

					- Ted

P.S. Now I have to decide on my own whether or not I should ask planetgit.org to add http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/category/computers/linux/source-code-management/git/feed to planet git. The question is whether to reward impoliteness or not (which is a bad thing), factored against trying to make planetgit.org more useful (which is a good thing).