Re: [RFC] what content should go in https://git-scm.com/doc/ext

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 22, 2017, 19:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3Z9ZrLEZVkgL7ACkL5nOsoo2R6dUC=Bfy1AjF_9+4snQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170121135545.gi6crct66msylhpr@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> I'm wondering if anybody has opinions on:
>
>   https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/pull/924
>
> (and I suspect most people in this community do not read pull requests
> there, hence this post).

Yeah, thanks for posting it here.

> Basically, we maintain a list of links to outside documentation, as well
> as to books. Somebody has requested a link to their paid tutorial
> course. How should we handle it?

I think it depends if you are ready and willing to handle more changes.

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> If the resource is valuable, then it may make sense to link to it, even
> if it costs money. We already do this with book links, and my policy has
> been to link any relevant book that is requested (I don't read them for
> quality, so I have no opinions).
>
> Should we do the same for tutorial content like this?

It could make sense to link to tutorial content, and then it could also make sense to link to trainings (online and maybe offline too), but my fear is that you could then have many people who want to advertise their tutorials and trainings, and that it might be difficult to draw a line while keeping the playing field even.

But maybe it's worth trying anyway.