From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Planet git USELESS Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:33:10 -0800 Message-ID: <7v63ivlr8p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20090227160259.6117@qkholland.gmail.com> <20090227141104.GE6791@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Quim K Holland , git mailing list To: Theodore Tso X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 27 18:35:21 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 1Ld6c8-0002Ex-9c for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:35:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755103AbZB0RdT (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:33:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755050AbZB0RdS (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:33:18 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:40579 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754993AbZB0RdS (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:33:18 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1769D2AC6; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:33:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [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 5FEA82AC3; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:33:12 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B74343C0-04F4-11DE-AE81-CBE7E3B37BAC-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: Theodore Tso writes: > 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?" Very nicely put. My initial reaction was "Heh, I am not affiliated with that site. Why is this mail addressed to me?" and I was about to say something nasty back, but reading your reply before I acted helped me avoid an embarrassment. Thank you for always being a calm and reasoned participant in discussions ;-). I was hoping that the planet thing to become a useful site when it was announced, but it turns out that I actually have to agree with the "useless" part of the subject. I look for 'git' tag in delicious these days instead. I think part of the reason the planet failed was that whoever runs that planet didn't do anything other than announcing it; it might have gained momentum if he or she did some active recruiting to prime it well before going online.