From: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:39:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git-scm.com
Message-ID: <A46A65A0-1B36-4C2A-8E1B-6E7313286AAF@ai.rug.nl>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5f5ptwu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>


On 28 jul 2008, at 23:42, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Tom Werner wrote:
>>
>>> I find it a bit confusing that some here seem to have a strong  
>>> dislike
>>> for GitHub. It's true that we haven't been active on the developer  
>>> list
>>> or in the #git channel on freenode, but we are constantly in  
>>> #github and
>>> have answered a *great* many questions from developers that are  
>>> new to
>>> git.
>>
>> Speaking for myself, I will probably direct some users from #git to
>> #github, then.
>
> I saw more than several times that people asked github specific  
> questions
> on #git; when they were lucky, there was somebody who knew github  
> and they
> got necessary help.  Otherwise the answer was "eh, sorry, that's a  
> closed
> service and we cannot help diagnosing the problem you are having".  It
> would have been the right way to help them to refer to the #github  
> support
> channel.

For what it's worth, I regularly redirect people from #git to #github,  
so at
least they aren't always left in the dark ;)

- Pieter