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Re: Git User's Survey 2007 summary - git homepage improvements

From
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.

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Jakub Narebski
Previous: Petr Baudis
Message 12 of 12 in “Git User's Survey 2007 summary - git homepage improvements”
  1. Jakub NarebskiOct 14, 2007
  2. Frank LichtenheldOct 14, 2007
  3. Jan HudecOct 16, 2007
  4. Petr BaudisOct 17, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceOct 17, 2007
  6. david@lang.hmOct 17, 2007
  7. Jonas FonsecaOct 17, 2007
  8. Petr BaudisOct 17, 2007
  9. Daniel BarkalowOct 17, 2007
  10. Petr BaudisOct 17, 2007
  11. Petr BaudisOct 17, 2007
  12. Jakub NarebskiOct 17, 2007

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