From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 16:19:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git-scm.com website
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJt_PHMEdpfRA0EKQyoH4XhYh89tvajewM28pgxzZ9ONMg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87y4n6kvdu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Michael J Gruber
>> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> It features "Companies & Projects Using Git" at the bottom.  Not
> "supporting" but "using".
>
> Linux is point 10 on that list.  The first 6 items are Google, facebook,
> Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Netflix.
>
> Even for an OpenSource project that does not buy into the Free Software
> philosophy, that is a mostly embarrassing list of companies to advertise
> for.
>
> Personally, I consider the recent migration of the Emacs repository to
> Git a bigger endorsement but then that's me.
>
> It might make sense to reduce this list just to "Projects" since those
> are actually more tangible and verifiable.  Or scrap it altogether.

At the bottom of the git-scm.com page there is this blurb:

  This open sourced site is hosted on GitHub.
  Patches, suggestions and comments are welcome

And that text contains a link to the GitHub repository[1] where anyone
can propose modifications to the page. Unfortunately I don't know of
anyone paying out contribution stipends for content changes made to
git-scm.com.


[1] https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/README.md#contributing