From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: markdown 2 man, was Re: Git Community Book Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:30:09 -0700 Message-ID: <7v3alq520e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080729170955.GK32184@machine.or.cz> <7vwsj4edm1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vy73j418t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Julian Phillips , Scott Chacon , Petr Baudis , git list To: Wincent Colaiuta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 31 02:31:31 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 1KOM4o-0002ED-Gv for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:31:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762243AbYGaAaZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:30:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760480AbYGaAaX (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:30:23 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:43712 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762243AbYGaAaV (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:30:21 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8398F439D9; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:30:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 094EF439D5; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:30:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Wincent Colaiuta's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:48:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: DAD27F44-5E97-11DD-A192-3113EBD4C077-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Wincent Colaiuta writes: > Funnily enough, he chose to title it the "Git Community Book". Hard to > match Scott's enthusiasm; this is the second major initiative we've > seen from him in the last few days (the other being git-scm.com > itself) which to the casual onlooker might look like the "official" > Git homepage and documentation, but in both cases development occurred > behind the scenes and the list was only notified after the fact. I think your "Behind the scenes, after the fact" is being unnecessarily harsh. What counts is what happens now after the launch, when there are issues identified that he could address on his side if he wanted to work with the community. "Ignore and fork forever" may be to further fracture the community, but for a book like his that has quite different aim than the official manual set, it might be a sensible approach. You have to weigh the pros and cons. We've seen other comments raised to both the book and the git-scm.com site on this list after they were announced. We'll see how they are addressed in coming weeks. I think it is not too late to voice your negative judgements only after seeing what happens.