From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: git-scm.com website Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:37:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87twxuktzc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87y4n6kvdu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Michael J Gruber , Christian Couder , Junio C Hamano , git To: Shawn Pearce X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 09 17:37:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YV0gD-00061B-Ov for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:37:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754761AbbCIQhR convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:37:17 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:48500 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753550AbbCIQhN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:37:13 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47540 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YV0g4-00056R-CG; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 12:37:12 -0400 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E0712DF8B7; Mon, 9 Mar 2015 17:37:11 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Shawn Pearce's message of "Mon, 9 Mar 2015 09:19:28 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Shawn Pearce writes: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Shawn Pearce writes: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Michael J Gruber >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Since we're talking business: git-scm.com still looks a bit like a >>>> ProGit/Github promotion site. I don't have anything against either= , and >>>> git-scm.com provides a lot of the information that users are looki= ng >>>> for, and that are hard to find anywhere else; it's a landing page.= It >>>> just does not look like a "project home". >>> >>> Yes, git-scm.com is a place to point people. >> >> It features "Companies & Projects Using Git" at the bottom. Not >> "supporting" but "using". >> >> Linux is point 10 on that list. The first 6 items are Google, faceb= ook, >> Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Netflix. >> >> Even for an OpenSource project that does not buy into the Free Softw= are >> philosophy, that is a mostly embarrassing list of companies to adver= tise >> for. >> >> Personally, I consider the recent migration of the Emacs repository = to >> Git a bigger endorsement but then that's me. >> >> It might make sense to reduce this list just to "Projects" since tho= se >> are actually more tangible and verifiable. Or scrap it altogether. > > At the bottom of the git-scm.com page there is this blurb: > > This open sourced site is hosted on GitHub. > Patches, suggestions and comments are welcome > > And that text contains a link to the GitHub repository[1] where anyon= e > can propose modifications to the page. Unfortunately I don't know of > anyone paying out contribution stipends for content changes made to > git-scm.com. Yeah, thanks for the cheap shot. I already understood that category=A0= B is subject to contempt. Congrats on being category=A0A or C. > [1] https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/README.md#contribu= ting Turns out that "anyone" is actually "anyone accepting the conditions fo= r a GitHub account": If you wish to contribute to this website, please fork it on GitHub= , push your change to a named branch, then send a pull request. I've read the rather longish Terms&Conditions of GitHub and found mysel= f unwilling to agree to them. Which does not mean that changing the ways of contributing to the Git website to accommodate me would make any sense since obviously I don't have a clue what a member of the "Git community" should be proud of and ashamed of and thus would be unable t= o make a meaningful proposal anyway even if I were into website programming. --=20 David Kastrup