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Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2009, 11:16 UTC
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<200907061316.24824.jnareb@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 6 July 2009, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> > And I have many friends who don't follow git's mailing list, so no, I
> > don't think a mailing list is enough for official announcements.
> 
> There are no forums suitable for everyone who are interested in git
> development. We can (sort of) rely on package maintainers for the
> various distros to keep track of groundbreaking changes. People who
> compile from source are sort of on their own if they don't want to
> follow the mailing list or in some other way find out what's going
> on. I don't have a problem with that, and it matches what I'd have
> expected myself if I was building something from source.

People who compile from source have RelNotes since 1.5.0. They are here for a reason...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Jakub NarebskiJul 2, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2009
  3. Jakub NarebskiJul 3, 2009
  4. Felipe ContrerasJul 3, 2009
  5. David AguilarJul 4, 2009
  6. Felipe ContrerasJul 4, 2009
  7. Jakub NarebskiJul 4, 2009
  8. Felipe ContrerasJul 4, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiJul 4, 2009
  10. Felipe ContrerasJul 4, 2009
  11. Jakub NarebskiJul 5, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 5, 2009
  13. Felipe ContrerasJul 5, 2009
  14. Jakub NarebskiJul 5, 2009
  15. Felipe ContrerasJul 5, 2009
  16. Andreas EricssonJul 6, 2009
  17. Jakub NarebskiJul 6, 2009
  18. Felipe ContrerasJul 6, 2009
  19. Andreas EricssonJul 6, 2009
  20. Elijah NewrenJul 6, 2009
  21. Martin RenoldJul 4, 2009
  22. Jakub NarebskiJul 6, 2009
  23. Jakub NarebskiJul 8, 2009

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