Re: Promoting Git developers

> David Lang <david@lang.hm> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I wrote something about a potential Git Rev News news letter:
>>>
>>> I read it.  Sounds promising.
>>>
>>> Just one suggestion on the name and half a comment.
>>>
>>> How would "Git Review" (or "Git Monthly Review", or replace your
>>> favourite "how-often-per-period-ly" in its name) sound?  I meant it
>>> to sound similar to academic journals that summarize and review
>>> contemporary works in the field and keeps your original "pun" about
>>> our culture around "patch reviews".
>> ...
>> I'll bet that LWN would publish, or at least link to, such articles on
>> a regular basis, and if you end up doing an in-depth writeup on a
>> particularly discussed topic, they would probably give it pretty good
>> visibility.
>
> I hope you are right, but my observation of our coverage by lwn.net
> is somewhat pessimistic.  In our early days, our progress often used
> to appear on the "Kernel Development" page, which I presume is the
> most important page of the weekly for the kernel developers, but in
> several months, the mention of us has moved two pages back to
> "Development" and listed together with folks like OCaml Weekly,
> PostgreSQL Weekly, etc.  I would not count that as "pretty good
> visibility" particularly.
>
> I am taking it as a positive change, though.  Once we got stable
> enough not to be a roadblock for the kernel folks and proven
> ourselves not to regress, our progress probably ceased to be
> newsworthy to them ;-)