Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello everyone

I thought about doing something pleasant for git so I have  put in place an automatic trasform git mail -> tweet from the rss of the git mailing list to twitter https://twitter.com/#!/gitproject

The process is almost automatic via the, courtesy of, twitterfeed.

The integration in a social network i think enhances the visibility of the project, and perhaps  it is easier for someone to follow the git mailing list on twitter.

I have already done the same for the my project, rpm5, in the past.

I'm not exactly an expert in graphics, but it is possible definitely to improve the layout. Not as much fun as contributing to the code but interesting anyway.

Best Regards

Elia

On 05/22/2012 12:09 PM, Elia Pinto wrote:

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Honestly, I see only drawbacks to that practice:
- information duplication
- too much information kills the information
- the try to transpose a non announce mailing list to a timeline
- ...

Would more agree with an agregation of tutorial, annouce, tip&trick,... but timelining discussions looks messy to me.

But, it's just my opinion.

2012/5/22 Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@rktmb.org>:

Well the idea was given to me by Eugene Teo https://twitter.com/ #! / Oss_security.

I think it was a success, but clearly depends not only from using twitter :=)

Best Regards

Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@rktmb.org> writes:

Same here.

Replicating announces, or "what's cooking in git" messages in tweeter may be nice for people who prefer twitter to RSS readers. RSS feeds are already available here:

http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/ http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/status.rss

but having the whole discussions as tweets seem pointless.

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

Sometimes it's just for the amusement value ...

Maybe better illustrated by gregkh (the linux guy), who [at one time, maybe not now] had his bash history piped to his twitter feed! Mostly completely useless, but kind of a funny comment on twitter...

-miles

On Tue, 22 May 2012 11:09:24 +0000, Elia Pinto wrote: ...

Thanks for *not* including the #git hash tag in those.

Other than that, it would probably be helpful not to tweet for every single mail in a thread, esp. not for patch series.

Andreas

On 5/22/2012 4:09 AM, Elia Pinto wrote:

If I don't use twitter can I ignore this fact? (I've never used twitter and don't think I foresee using it.) I thought I heard twitter was limited to 40 character messages or something like that.

v/r, neal

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com> wrote:

I guess you can. In short twitter lets you subscribe to people by "following them" or topics via "#hashTags", say #git. You can watch #git to know what random people are telling about it but as somebody mentioned above, if this guy tweets everything from the mailing list with #git, its gonna be a big mess. Else its for people who watch twitter more often than their email inbox.