From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: git-scm.com website Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:06:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4n6kvdu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Michael J Gruber , Christian Couder , Junio C Hamano , git To: Shawn Pearce X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 09 17:07:17 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 1YV0D6-0007RA-0e for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:07:16 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754803AbbCIQG6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:06:58 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:47817 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753458AbbCIQGz (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:06:55 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46856 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YV0Ck-0003QJ-8m; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 12:06:54 -0400 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D9AF5DF8B7; Mon, 9 Mar 2015 17:06:53 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Shawn Pearce's message of "Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:51:02 -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: Shawn Pearce writes: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Michael J Gruber > wrote: >> >> Since we're talking business: git-scm.com still looks a bit like a >> ProGit/Github promotion site. I don't have anything against either, and >> git-scm.com provides a lot of the information that users are looking >> for, and that are hard to find anywhere else; it's a landing page. It >> just does not look like a "project home". > > Yes, git-scm.com is a place to point people. It features "Companies & Projects Using Git" at the bottom. Not "supporting" but "using". Linux is point 10 on that list. The first 6 items are Google, facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Netflix. Even for an OpenSource project that does not buy into the Free Software philosophy, that is a mostly embarrassing list of companies to advertise for. Personally, I consider the recent migration of the Emacs repository to Git a bigger endorsement but then that's me. It might make sense to reduce this list just to "Projects" since those are actually more tangible and verifiable. Or scrap it altogether. -- David Kastrup