Re: [PATCH] git(1): remove a defunct link to "list of authors"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 8, 2012, 11:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20121208110253.GA24518@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAJo=hJsT+ChAr8vLQ99QPyrCXYAtuEUWn5Wdb-k1brBxk6V45A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:09:51PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> >
> >> The linked page has not been showing the promised "more complete
> >> list" for more than 6 months by now, and nobody has resurrected
> >> the list there nor elsewhere since then.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> >> ---
> >>  * If somebody has a working replacement URL, we could use that
> >>    instead, of course.  Takers?
> >
> > A possible alternative could be https://www.ohloh.net/p/git/contributors/summary
> 
> Eh, I think just removing the link is sufficient.

FYI, I just submitted a patch to add a contributors page to git-scm.com that looks similar to the old one. That patch being the sum total of my ruby and rails experience, I'd expect some re-working to be necessary before it is merged:

  https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/pull/216

So it probably makes sense to go ahead and drop the link from the manpage for now, and we can re-add it if the contributors page gets merged (in my patch, it has a different path, so we would need to tweak the URL eventually anyway).

-Peff