Re: git-scm.com website

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mar 9, 2015, 16:06 UTC
Message-ID: <87y4n6kvdu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJo=hJsbbfK-_qX6sg3Azk30Kz5ebLfyMbVF98VzHZe8YyaLcQ@mail.gmail.com>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>>
>> Since we're talking business: git-scm.com still looks a bit like a
>> ProGit/Github promotion site. I don't have anything against either, and
>> git-scm.com provides a lot of the information that users are looking
>> for, and that are hard to find anywhere else; it's a landing page. It
>> just does not look like a "project home".
>
> Yes, git-scm.com is a place to point people.

It features "Companies & Projects Using Git" at the bottom. Not "supporting" but "using".

Linux is point 10 on that list. The first 6 items are Google, facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Netflix.

Even for an OpenSource project that does not buy into the Free Software philosophy, that is a mostly embarrassing list of companies to advertise for.

Personally, I consider the recent migration of the Emacs repository to Git a bigger endorsement but then that's me.

It might make sense to reduce this list just to "Projects" since those are actually more tangible and verifiable. Or scrap it altogether.

-- 
David Kastrup