From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:29:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 4/8] gitweb: (gr)avatar support Message-ID: <7vhby2o6xy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200906270125.25048.jnareb@gmail.com> Jakub Narebski writes: > I'm not sure if having picons as 'default' for gravatar is a good idea, > because the rules for resolving picons are complicated[1]... which > I didn't realize when writing this (sketch of) idea. > > [1] http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Also picons these days look somewhat antiquated with its rather strict limitation to the colormaps (IIRC, you practically have to go grayscale if you want to use a real photo), and it would make sense to try gravatar first and then fall back to picons.