From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: git-scm.com website Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:49:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87lhj6kqng.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87y4n6kvdu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Shawn Pearce , Michael J Gruber , Christian Couder , Junio C Hamano , git To: Scott Chacon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 09 18:49:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YV1nn-0005t4-7f for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:49:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753408AbbCIRtK (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:49:10 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:50101 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752019AbbCIRtI (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:49:08 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49140 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YV1nf-0002o0-H8; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:49:07 -0400 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 07411E062D; Mon, 9 Mar 2015 18:49:07 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Scott Chacon's message of "Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:14:43 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Scott Chacon writes: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Personally, I consider the recent migration of the Emacs repository to >> Git a bigger endorsement but then that's me. > > I would love to have Emacs on that page, actually. If you guys want me > to add that, I'm happy to. I didn't know they moved over, I thought > they were still a bzr shop. I don't know who "you guys" is, but it would be my guess that Stallman/FSF would not be enthused to see the Emacs logo added to that particular list. Emacs used Bzr particularly to promote an alternative to Git more open to the free software philosophy promoted by the FSF. Once Bzr development became non-responsive and Canonical turned it more into a Canonical-owned rather than a community project, it became sort of pointless to stick with a technically less popular choice. So Emacs fairly recently switched to Git. So it's sort of a screaming and kicking endorsement. Some people would claim that those are the best, but it does not really fit well with the spirit of this front page. >> It might make sense to reduce this list just to "Projects" since >> those are actually more tangible and verifiable. Or scrap it >> altogether. > > Sorry, I disagree with this. I think it's helpful for people to see > some important corporations that are using it, Where is the point if they don't see how or in what scale? > since many people coming to the page are doing research to figure out > if they want to switch to it in their companies. It also demonstrates > that these large companies are participating in the open source > community Uh no, it doesn't. "Uses $x" does not constitute participation. -- David Kastrup