Re: Planet git USELESS

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2009, 17:33 UTC
Message-ID: <7v63ivlr8p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090227141104.GE6791@mit.edu>

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

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> 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?"

Very nicely put.

My initial reaction was "Heh, I am not affiliated with that site. Why is this mail addressed to me?" and I was about to say something nasty back, but reading your reply before I acted helped me avoid an embarrassment.

Thank you for always being a calm and reasoned participant in discussions ;-).

I was hoping that the planet thing to become a useful site when it was announced, but it turns out that I actually have to agree with the "useless" part of the subject. I look for 'git' tag in delicious these days instead.

I think part of the reason the planet failed was that whoever runs that planet didn't do anything other than announcing it; it might have gained momentum if he or she did some active recruiting to prime it well before going online.