Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
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- Jul 6, 2009, 08:14 UTC
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Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It's just that somehow for "Git Development Community" a mailing list >> is enough. We don't have official git blog, we don't have bugtracker >> (issue tracker). At the beginning git didn't even had _homepage_. > > How do you know that? Have you already asked that question in a survey > already? ;) >
The git developer community flourishes without official blogs, and it did so even before we had a webpage. In truth, I visit the mailing list archives more often than I visit the webpage. It doesn't *need* a blog (or a forum, or a tracker, or whatever), but some people might find such things helpful. Personally, I'm a huge fan of having it all in one place.
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> As an experiment I added http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss to my > Google Reader, and through some tricks you can actually see how many > people are subscribed to that feed: 26. For reference > gitlog.wordpress.com has 28, and Planet IM, a relatively unknown > planet: 844. > > 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.
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