From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:16:23 +0200 Message-ID: <200907061316.24824.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <200907030130.24417.jnareb@gmail.com> <94a0d4530907051312u1c4bc811i4015b1eb753a8b1e@mail.gmail.com> <4A51B25C.9040904@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Felipe Contreras , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 06 13:16:54 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 1MNmBf-0008MV-Ar for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:16:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754168AbZGFLQd (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:16:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754023AbZGFLQc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:16:32 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com ([209.85.220.218]:38040 "EHLO mail-fx0-f218.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753817AbZGFLQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:16:31 -0400 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so3985852fxm.37 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:16:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=uyHMy6VeWTQYS0PUlSBglNb/OAHCizyzbIi0t071QNA=; b=eG1mYMSsrN2qjSgH1z4GA/+O1ANvx+tLFmJ11FNpbJ4hQOcPY3h82X0EQSKKCVO6hU k1LLcASxzjR62vmWX2roTXY+Y/1/yFqMrKAp7hUkJtD29BHpWa40VtUnAgDSLvQpgej2 FW4PaXP/4Uas5rWmbmEu3RR2FN96eXQXrCwfo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=qyOMrMe3OowQgbTqb1OSYN5vi/ticJ08pJ2ZtXhoFVP1U1HGSyW3SM6Fj9soZYuXTj 7Y6A46nnKo0wBTcBQ/RlZNsHTpi065gay5t5X00N9CrGeEIy1m4P8Vd5cWQCivEzuVnV 8ZyUOK+7DA+meVZF3333qrN3ADuPRH0zFFE1I= Received: by 10.204.62.135 with SMTP id x7mr4468179bkh.95.1246878993638; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.13? (abvj223.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.207.223]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm11200333fkr.30.2009.07.06.04.16.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:16:32 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <4A51B25C.9040904@op5.se> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 6 July 2009, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Felipe Contreras wrote: > > 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. People who compile from source have RelNotes since 1.5.0. They are here for a reason... -- Jakub Narebski Poland