Git roadmap (How read What's cooking in git.git)

Hi Junio, I'm starting a french blog[1] on git to support workshops[2]. The goal is to explain deeply the philosophy, the commands and subcommands, workflows, etc. And also to aggregate headlines of the git world, follow events and announce git releases. For the latter, it's a bit hard (for a non core developer) to follow the development. From your point of view, how we could set up a roadmap and a "what's new"?

[1] http://blog.gitfr.net [2] 100% free, with 50 attendees for the first workshop, 70 for the second!

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 13:53, Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com> wrote:

Projects that have a "Roadmap" are usually the ones that have paid developers, where someone will centrally plan what things get worked on. Then assign developers to those tasks.

Git is a free software project. So it can't have a "Roadmap" in the same sense.

What we'll end up implementing is a function of what patches people send, and which of those patches end up passing review and get into git.git.

You can get something like a roadmap just by following what people are working on, and asking them what they want to do next.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 14:38, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Ævar, thank you for your response.

It's a bit surprising that you (the core devs) haven't any ideas on the future versions. But roadmap is maybe a misleading word, I talk to leverage a bit the visibility of the project for users. It's not a major point, "what's cooking" is a nice overview (understand it is a different kettle of fish).

Cool.

Understood. I will make it.

BTW, congrats. Git is a wonderful piece of software.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com> wrote:

Any chance you can revive the "Git Chronicles" [1]?

Junio is too busy to update it (see his reply in [1]). I'm sure it would be really appreciated.

[1] http://mid.gmane.org/201007081057.51946.jnareb@gmail.com

Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com> writes:

There is Junio's blog which sometimes contain interesting bits about git:

  http://gitster.livejournal.com/

There is also "A git blog looking to be official" (with announcements and git top links, etc)

  http://gitlog.wordpress.com/

I know that it doesn't really answer your question, but Git User's Surveys included question about what features one would want in Git, see for example

  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2010

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 15:05, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

thank you Jakub for the links but I know all ;)

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 16:07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

(about Git Chronicles and Git Traffic) Unfortunately, my english is broken, that's why I would make the same in French. If a found a translator, I would be happy to create a englsh version.

Cheers.