From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:33:10 GMT Subject: Re: Planet git USELESS Message-ID: <7v63ivlr8p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20090227141104.GE6791@mit.edu> Theodore Tso writes: > 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.