Planet Git

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've started a Planet for Git users/developers who write about it on their journals/weblogs.

http://planetgit.org

Regards,

Tiago

On 2009-01-21, webmaster@planetgit.org <webmaster@planetgit.org> wrote:

Funny, I just visited it today and didn't know how long this website has been idle like that (with only 4 blogs or so). So I was about to write you to post it right here, but you did that already.

Although right now I can't see any subscriptions at all :(

Greetings, Jojo

Quoting Johannes Gilger <heipei@hackvalue.de> writes:

There was somebody who used to post a weekly summary of git-related writings from people's blogs to this list.  What happened to it?  There was not enough interest?

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:

You mean the git weekly links, or the editorial kind of thing?

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, webmaster@planetgit.org wrote:

Just went there, because I thought it might be fun to write about my newest ideas, and progress on old ones.

But then I read this:

	If you want to have your journal/weblog aggregated here, please 
	send an email to the webmaster with your name, full git-related
	feed and hackergotchi URL.

Up until the "send an email to the webmaster with your name", I was game.

After that: I am probably too stupid, because I do not understand what is meant, but even then, I am sure that I no longer want to be part of it.

Ciao, Dscho

On Wednesday 2009 January 21 14:59:23 Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Generally "planets" just aggregate existing feeds, they don't provide services to create the feeds. A feed URL is really just a URL to a RSS-formatted resource. (Most content management systems, e.g. Drupal or Joomla provide a number of feed URL for [subsets of] the content; there are also free "weblog" services that also give you a feed URL.) Hackergotchi is stupid slang for a small image that can be placed beside your feed items, I'm not entirely sure what the etymology of it is.

If we wanted to, I suppose we could provide weblog services to developers. Maybe on git-scm.com or something. I'm just thinking out loud here, though. I don't even know if there's real interest in something like that. And personally, I'd rather be writing patches than maintaining a Drupal installation on devblog.git-scm.com or whatever.

On 2009-01-21, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

Hi Dscho,

not sure what you're talking about, but it's common on planets for people to be listed with their name (instead of the strange titles some blogs have). Just have a look at two different planets I regularly visit: http://planet.larrythecow.org/ http://planet.rwth.org/

Besides, I'm sure that if you use your synonym it's fine too ;)

Greetings, Jojo

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Johannes Gilger <heipei@hackvalue.de> wrote:

And that it's probably the default theme and content on the "planet" software.

Quoting webmaster@planetgit.org:

When you want to start a new Planet and make it successful, it may not be a bad idea to prime it by adding feeds from well known people near the center of the git universe, and it would have been better if it was done even before going public like this announcement.

You may have to research whose writings are worth including (http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitLinks has a few pointers), and you need to probably go to them and ask permission for including their feeds.  In other words, I think you should spend some effort on your own, not just setting up a site and throwing a URL to the wild, to make your Planet successful.