From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git.git: topics and things like that Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:14:28 -0700 Message-ID: <7v1wjc3oh7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <200703252037.l2PKbhx6032045@localhost.localdomain> <7vslbt2g0p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200703252117.l2PLHFkl000601@localhost.localdomain> <7vhcs92cuu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <4606FBB6.2040902@midwinter.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Xavier Maillard , git@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Grimm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 26 01:14:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HVbv4-0007gS-Kl for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:14:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932664AbXCYXOb (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:14:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753360AbXCYXOa (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:14:30 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao106.cox.net ([68.230.241.40]:58063 "EHLO fed1rmmtao106.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753355AbXCYXO3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:14:29 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070325231428.XMDK22511.fed1rmmtao106.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:14:28 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id fBEU1W00Q1kojtg0000000; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:14:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4606FBB6.2040902@midwinter.com> (Steven Grimm's message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:46:14 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Steven Grimm writes: > ... maybe the "A message from the > maintainer" email should be titled "Introduction to git project > management" or something similar that would make it immediately > obvious to a new user that it's something they should read to get > general background information about the project. I do not necessarily think that is a better title. It not just talks the project management, but a note from the maintainer in general. In the future it might talk about even more things. Moderated newsgroups tend to have "foo.bar.baz FAQ" periodical postings, but I'd rather not make me the authoritative FAQ maintainer, as git is about distributed development and borrowing the convention from heavily-centralized moderated world feels wrong. Besides, it is something that does not have to be done by me. I just expected people to pay attention to what the maintainer has to say (in addition to what the well known list regulars have to say), if they wanted to know what the project is about, and "A note from the maintainer" (the message _always_ had that title) would be a good enough title for finding that. Any volunteers to maintain FAQ for the list?