Re: Official Git Homepage change? Re: git-scm.com

> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
>
>> .... Of course, I would be transferring the control of the homepage
>> from my hands so I would like to poll the community about how do people
>> feel about this - opinion of core Git contributors would be especially
>> welcome...
>> ...
>>   - The new site is affiliated with a commercial entity - GitHub.
>> The website maintainer also has commercial interest in some published
>> Git learning materials, which might generate certain conflict of
>> interests; we must trust them that they handle this well.
>>   - Both GitHub and Scott seem to be rather distanced from the "core"
>> Git development community. This might or might not be an issue.
>
> These two are directly related.  They might be friendly and well-meaning
> folks, but I agree that they haven't earned our trust yet.
>
> But I do not think it matters that much.
>
> The thing is, git.or.cz may have been the closest thing to the "official"
> homepage we have had, but that is not because Linus or I or Shawn declared
> the site is official and/or that the site is trustworthy.  It was because
> you put efforts preparing the contents worthy to be one-stop shop for git
> related information, back when there was no such thing.  And the members
> of the comminity found it a good site.  And you have the wiki there, where
> there truly have been community participation to enhance the contents.
>
> For me personally, pages outside the wiki have never felt like "the
> official git homepage", not because the contents you prepared were
> inadequate, but because I did not see much community participation to help
> enrich it.
>
> So I wish the new site success, but the definition of success from my
> point of view is not how many random visitors it will attract, but how
> well the site makes the contributors (both to git software itself, and to
> the site's contents) feel welcomed.  Maybe in time it will become
> successful enough by _my_ definition of success, and I may recommend
> kernel.org folks to point at it from http://git.kernel.org/ (link with
> text "overview") if/when that happens, and I may start mentioning them in
> the "Note".  We'll see.
>
>>   The negatives section writeup is longer, but in fact I think the
>> positives win here; I also have a bit of bad conscience about not giving
>> git.or.cz the amount of time it would deserve...
>
> Let me thank you for maintaining not just git.or.cz/ but also repo.or.cz/
> and the wiki.  I personally never visited the "Homepage" but the
> repositories and the wiki are valuable services you gave back to the
> community.
>
> It's also somewhat interesting to observe that several people I have never
> heard of in the git circle are simultaneously doing new git books,
> apparently never asking for much technical advice from core git people, by
> the way.
>