From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Langhoff" Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Git Forum Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:36:17 -0300 Message-ID: <46a038f90804081536h7a19803apb401ed60593d9802@mail.gmail.com> References: <60646ee10804081451i4e6aa23ek44280e5d367d8814@mail.gmail.com> <20080408222501.GV11574@genesis.frugalware.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dill , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Miklos Vajna" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 09 00:37:05 2008 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 1JjMR5-0005Y3-W1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:37:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752137AbYDHWgT (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:36:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752042AbYDHWgT (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:36:19 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:4658 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751801AbYDHWgS (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:36:18 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so902135ugc.16 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:36:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=7d81XlKOeeraZKRukjOVA0pw5jB9vC0L+xJ9frnT66w=; b=X8DoEGzYI3LCws4flRUU32z3UAMLDfZomo7vMQSjxvG61BlQoWTQZEHhiw/0bQSu7JzdOosefeE3hW4OneEE4moNTJdsAGL0ts+A8kJon7FEbW1YR0tAOpYhRPhsNlxitTJeFd4/Cs9LT/f1D4k+N9JlEsHdqcxK/1z8Z6KAlmI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TVIK0FOlEPsLf/lsHzSB2gmQawNuiJkfEtzLalpHtx38RJV+nrH70xG3yShgNcnvT8lbh82dELn74c0Jcgx+M6WcttxrORcDWq2s32EfscNCIbewd4PWAFoTitO5UdWIAiaifwBUUO7S6lT/nx1IbUHkqAXSskGpm41/rg3X/pI= Received: by 10.66.236.13 with SMTP id j13mr3655930ugh.30.1207694177292; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.252.2 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:36:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080408222501.GV11574@genesis.frugalware.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:51:59PM -0600, Dill wrote: > > I think a lot of users not only look at mailing lists but also seek > > out forums for help. > > i never understood why this is good. maybe because there are no ads on > this mailing list? > > yes, there are users who can't use a mail client so they use forums, but > how one expects a user to learn git when he/she is not able to use a > mail client? :) Specially with gmane and their ilk, which provide forum-like views, including ads ;-) One thing we have had discussions about in the past is that we don't want to split users from developers. Developers are here, so let's make sure users are guided here too. The approach of not splitting user/dev lists is a very good one - even if controversial at times. Make sure you read up on earlier discussions on a "git-users" list - most of the considerations that apply against it also apply against a forum. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff