From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:14:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4A51B25C.9040904@op5.se> References: <200907030130.24417.jnareb@gmail.com> <7vprcfj83z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <94a0d4530907051215h755f634bkfd043d88289df29e@mail.gmail.com> <200907052145.27995.jnareb@gmail.com> <94a0d4530907051312u1c4bc811i4015b1eb753a8b1e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jakub Narebski , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Elijah Newren To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 06 10:14:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MNjLT-0002xV-PF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:14:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754092AbZGFIOZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:14:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754929AbZGFIOY (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:14:24 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog114.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.211]:53023 "HELO na3sys009aog114.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753883AbZGFIOY (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:14:24 -0400 Received: from source ([209.85.219.216]) by na3sys009aob114.postini.com ([74.125.148.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKSlGyYlAbydgO2LBl1+jNYuVPN1L88BOe@postini.com; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:14:28 PDT Received: by mail-ew0-f216.google.com with SMTP id 12so5362670ewy.11 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:14:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.78.7 with SMTP id a7mr2670210ebb.4.1246868063985; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clix.int.op5.se ([212.112.174.166]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm1388843eyb.45.2009.07.06.01.14.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:14:22 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530907051312u1c4bc811i4015b1eb753a8b1e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> It's just that somehow for "Git Development Community" a mailing list >> is enough. We don't have official git blog, we don't have bugtracker >> (issue tracker). At the beginning git didn't even had _homepage_. > > How do you know that? Have you already asked that question in a survey > already? ;) > The git developer community flourishes without official blogs, and it did so even before we had a webpage. In truth, I visit the mailing list archives more often than I visit the webpage. It doesn't *need* a blog (or a forum, or a tracker, or whatever), but some people might find such things helpful. Personally, I'm a huge fan of having it all in one place. > As an experiment I added http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss to my > Google Reader, and through some tricks you can actually see how many > people are subscribed to that feed: 26. For reference > gitlog.wordpress.com has 28, and Planet IM, a relatively unknown > planet: 844. > > And I have many friends who don't follow git's mailing list, so no, I > don't think a mailing list is enough for official announcements. > There are no forums suitable for everyone who are interested in git development. We can (sort of) rely on package maintainers for the various distros to keep track of groundbreaking changes. People who compile from source are sort of on their own if they don't want to follow the mailing list or in some other way find out what's going on. I don't have a problem with that, and it matches what I'd have expected myself if I was building something from source. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.