Re: markdown 2 man, was Re: Git Community Book

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 31, 2008, 00:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3alq520e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <B7697630-DF9C-4EF0-9D63-9E362CEE125B@wincent.com>

Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:

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> Funnily enough, he chose to title it the "Git Community Book". Hard to  
> match Scott's enthusiasm; this is the second major initiative we've  
> seen from him in the last few days (the other being git-scm.com  
> itself) which to the casual onlooker might look like the "official"  
> Git homepage and documentation, but in both cases development occurred  
> behind the scenes and the list was only notified after the fact.

I think your "Behind the scenes, after the fact" is being unnecessarily harsh.

What counts is what happens now after the launch, when there are issues identified that he could address on his side if he wanted to work with the community. "Ignore and fork forever" may be to further fracture the community, but for a book like his that has quite different aim than the official manual set, it might be a sensible approach. You have to weigh the pros and cons.

We've seen other comments raised to both the book and the git-scm.com site on this list after they were announced. We'll see how they are addressed in coming weeks. I think it is not too late to voice your negative judgements only after seeing what happens.