Re: Planet git USELESS

[Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:02:59PM +0600, Quim K Holland wrote:
> Hey, I looked at http://planetgit.org/ site and
> I hoped to find something useful but there are
> only two dudes listed there. How strange nobody from
> this project blogs about what he is doing.
> 
> If you keep a planet site, make it useful for
> the rest of us to read, REALLY!!!!

Your mistake is in assuming that the folks who set up the
planetgit.org site are talking to the git developers on this list;
anyone can set up a domain name, "planet<foo>.org", without
necessarily being officially tied to project <foo>.

The planetgit.org site does say that people who want to be added to
the site should contact webmaster@planetgit.org; you might want to do
the same if you're not satisified with the content on that site.

I also suspect that you might have gotten a more positive reaction if
you said something along the lines of "hey, there seems to be this
planetgit.org site which isn't tracking a lot of blogs; could some of
the git developers consider sending their rss feed to
webmaster@planetgit.org so they can track your blog entries?"

Instead, you sound like a demanding *sshole, and people generally
don't respond well to that.

Best regards,

					- Ted

P.S.  Now I have to decide on my own whether or not I should ask
planetgit.org to add
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/category/computers/linux/source-code-management/git/feed
to planet git.  The question is whether to reward impoliteness or not
(which is a bad thing), factored against trying to make planetgit.org
more useful (which is a good thing).