Re: Git User's Survey 2007 summary - git homepage improvements
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 17, 2007, 06:21 UTC
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On 10/17/07, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:05:22AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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>> # Information about MS Windows version(s). Link to MSys Git, marking >> it as under development; perhaps plea for help? > > I'm not sure what in particular the MSys people want... They may want to > send patches, though. ;-) > > Maybe we could merge the (largely artificially separated anyway) > subproject subsections to a single alphabetically-ordered subsection and > include MSysGit there?
I was thinking more about adding link to MSysGit / GitMe / WInGit in the "Getting Git"/"Binaries" section. I'm not sure what people who put this response in survey want...
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>> * Perhaps making some pages like FAQ or Tips and Tricks, or >> discussion about nature of branches in git taken from GitWiki when >> they are mature enough > > This touches a subject that I'm kind of surprised wasn't mentioned more, > that is the homepage-wiki duality. Are people happy with the current > setup? I kinda am, or would be if I got more patches. ;-) I'm personally > not too fond of having project's main homepage in wiki - > *especially* if it's made obvious by half of the screen space being > occupied by wiki-generated metalinks. But if everyone else thinks that > we should just move the main page to a wiki format, I won't stay in the > way. > > I'd like to use this space to also repeat that I never seriously > intended to maintain the technical side of the wiki, I've set up just > because it was so damn easy. I have grown to just hate the wiki engine > we use, and if someone wants to take the wiki over, you are welcome!
I'm very happy with homepage / wiki separation. IMVHO having wiki for homepage is not a very good decision. I thought that wiki would be more staging area for homepage, and that some content after maturing would be put on homepage.
-- Jakub Narebski