Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Elia Pinto]

Hello everyone

I thought about doing something pleasant for git so I have  put in place an
automatic trasform git mail -> tweet from the rss of the git mailing list to
twitter
https://twitter.com/#!/gitproject

The process is almost automatic via the, courtesy of, twitterfeed.

The integration in a social network i think enhances the visibility of the
project, and perhaps  it is easier for someone to follow the git mailing
list on twitter.

I have already done the same for the my project, rpm5, in the past.

I'm not exactly an expert in graphics, but it is possible definitely to
improve the layout. Not as much fun as contributing to the code but
interesting anyway.

Best Regards

Elia

Re: Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

On 05/22/2012 12:09 PM, Elia Pinto wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I thought about doing something pleasant for git so I have  put in place an
> automatic trasform git mail ->  tweet from the rss of the git mailing list to
> twitter
> https://twitter.com/#!/gitproject
 > [...]
> The integration in a social network i think enhances the visibility of the
> project, and perhaps  it is easier for someone to follow the git mailing
> list on twitter.

Honestly, I see only drawbacks to that practice:
- information duplication
- too much information kills the information
- the try to transpose a non announce mailing list to a timeline
- ...

Would more agree with an agregation of tutorial, annouce, tip&trick,... 
but timelining discussions looks messy to me.

But, it's just my opinion.


-- 
RMA.

Re: Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Elia Pinto]

2012/5/22 Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@rktmb.org>:
> On 05/22/2012 12:09 PM, Elia Pinto wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> I thought about doing something pleasant for git so I have  put in place
>> an
>> automatic trasform git mail ->  tweet from the rss of the git mailing list
>> to
>> twitter
>> https://twitter.com/#!/gitproject
>
>> [...]
>
>> The integration in a social network i think enhances the visibility of the
>> project, and perhaps  it is easier for someone to follow the git mailing
>> list on twitter.
>
>
> Honestly, I see only drawbacks to that practice:
> - information duplication
> - too much information kills the information
> - the try to transpose a non announce mailing list to a timeline


Well the idea was given to me by Eugene Teo https://twitter.com/ #! /
Oss_security.

I think it was a success, but clearly depends not only from using twitter :=)

Best Regards

Re: Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Andreas Krey]

On Tue, 22 May 2012 11:09:24 +0000, Elia Pinto wrote:
...
> The integration in a social network i think enhances the visibility of the
> project, and perhaps  it is easier for someone to follow the git mailing
> list on twitter.

Thanks for *not* including the #git hash tag in those.

Other than that, it would probably be helpful not to tweet for every
single mail in a thread, esp. not for patch series.

Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800

Re: Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Neal Kreitzinger]

On 5/22/2012 4:09 AM, Elia Pinto wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I thought about doing something pleasant for git so I have  put in place an
> automatic trasform git mail ->  tweet from the rss of the git mailing list to
> twitter
> https://twitter.com/#!/gitproject
>
If I don't use twitter can I ignore this fact? (I've never used twitter 
and don't think I foresee using it.)  I thought I heard twitter was 
limited to 40 character messages or something like that.

v/r,
neal

Re: Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

[jaseem abid]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Neal Kreitzinger
<nkreitzinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I don't use twitter can I ignore this fact? (I've never used twitter and
> don't think I foresee using it.)  I thought I heard twitter was limited to
> 40 character messages or something like that.

I guess you can. In short twitter lets you subscribe to people by
"following them" or topics via "#hashTags", say #git. You can watch
#git to know what random people are telling about it but as somebody
mentioned above, if this guy tweets everything from the mailing list
with #git, its gonna be a big mess. Else its for people who watch
twitter more often than their email inbox.

-- 
Jaseem Abid
http://jaseemabid.github.com

Re: Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Matthieu Moy]

Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@rktmb.org> writes:

> Would more agree with an agregation of tutorial, annouce,
> tip&trick,... but timelining discussions looks messy to me.

Same here.

Replicating announces, or "what's cooking in git" messages in tweeter
may be nice for people who prefer twitter to RSS readers. RSS feeds are
already available here:

http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/
http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss
http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/status.rss

but having the whole discussions as tweets seem pointless.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Re: Git is on TWITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Miles Bader]

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> but having the whole discussions as tweets seem pointless.

Sometimes it's just for the amusement value ...

Maybe better illustrated by gregkh (the linux guy), who [at one time,
maybe not now] had his bash history piped to his twitter feed!  Mostly
completely useless, but kind of a funny comment on twitter...

-miles

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On a bad day, I see brewers still talking as though all beer were
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steelworkers who have in reality long ago sought work as striptease
artists.  [Michael Jackson]