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Re: git-scm.com website (was: Promoting Git developers)

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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Mar 9, 2015, 15:51 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

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> 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.

Before it was created by Scott Chacon (and others) there was no landing page for users looking for information on Git.

After it was created, nobody else stepped up with a better alternative.

Writing a website is hard. I have been struggling to make a better landing page for Gerrit Code Review[1,2]. I really do understand why Git C hackers aren't interested in sitting down to write prose, HTML and CSS.

Many of the folks that have contributed to git-scm.com don't usually contribute C code, but their contribution to the project has still been beneficial by providing a landing page.

git-scm.com is controlled by the Git project through its membership with the Conservancy. It could be redirected to another site if another site existed that better served end-users and the project better.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/gerrit [2] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/homepage/+doc/HEAD/

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