From: Felipe Contreras Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:53:09 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it Message-ID: <94a0d4530907041653n46c082e2ta5141e917f5bd84f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200907050040.21991.jnareb@gmail.com> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > On Sat, 4 July 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> 2009/7/3 Jakub Narebski : > >> > The last replacements reminds me of the problem of announcing this >> > survey.  Where to submit note announcing "Git User's Survey 2009" >> > (tentative date of survey is 15 July 2009 -- 15 September 2009)? >> > How such note should look like? >> >> I'm not sure what you mean. I think the best place to announce these >> kinds of things is through a post in an official blog. > > The problem is that there isn't "official blog" for Git.  There is > gitster's (Junio C Hamano, git maintainer) blog at >  http://gitster.livejournal.com/ > there is yours 'A git blog looking to be official' at >  http://gitlog.wordpress.com/ I guess Junio's blog is the most official one ATM, but I'll post it on mine too. And as I said before, if anyone wants to post in gitlog.wordpress.com I can give you permissions; I don't want it to be *my* blog. > Let me quote appropriate question from "Git User's Survey 2009" which > lists possible announcement mechanisms I did think of: > >  29. How did you hear about this Git User's Survey? >    * git mailing list >    * git-related mailing list (msysGit, Git for Human Beings, ...) >    * mailing list or forum of some project >    * #git IRC channel topic >    * announcement on IRC channel >    * git homepage >    * git wiki >    * git hosting site >    * software-related web site >    * news web site or social news site >    * blog >    * other kind of web site >    * Twitter or other microblogging platform >    * other - please specify > > I will send announcement to Git mailing list (i.e. here) using > "[ANNOUNCE]" in email subject, which means that 'GIT Mailing List > RSS Feeds' script would pick it up for 'announce' feed >  http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss > which means that Ohloh would have it in "News" section for Git project: >  http://www.ohloh.net/p/git > (and it is easy to add announcement in "Journal Entries" at Ohloh). > > I can add announcement about Git User's Survey 2009 at Git Wiki and > create page about it at >  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2009 > I can ask Scott Chacon to put announcement on Git Homepage at >  http://git-scm.com > > What other places to ask to put note about this survey?  For past > surveys I was sending announcement to mailing list of projects using > git (http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitProjects)... well, at least those > which didn't require subscribing to mailing list before postiting on > it (and even that for some cases can be worked around by sending > announcement via GMane).  But with number of projects using git so > large nowadays I don't think it is good approach... I would recommend against posting on client projects; IMHO that's a bit spammy. How about contacting big hosting sites; sourceforge, github, gitorious, etc. ? -- Felipe Contreras