From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jakub Narebski" Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 summary - git homepage improvements Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:21:38 +0200 Message-ID: <8fe92b430710162321h5eed667fj3daf99701f328835@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fe92b430710141505y75ab61c4l50688fc9530e4f90@mail.gmail.com> <20071017011835.GH18279@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Petr Baudis" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 17 08:21:51 2007 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 1Ii2Hv-0005Qu-BZ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:21:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752613AbXJQGVk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:21:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752612AbXJQGVk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:21:40 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.189]:34393 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752133AbXJQGVj (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:21:39 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so1654762rvb for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:21:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=L+E620CcZmStgN3jbhfhu6TIoUl8n7jHrkmElbBygzk=; b=TdCO3OBOptObXzPQVf7cJ57A1gHUlXxpUmpjLwpNE2RP4SSk9jkZB4NJz5C9BvNwoxcTMQLz6aDE/m3dtqoA+/GWWLyEux/SUNmHyP1tlpAzTTGWjJK4fuhNvV9Q0dz7OKUpPVPZo9Aa2dh67IJBWENF601oY9XXJLL2OHx+1H4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qh6t0VmLp5fupxUMhMDyXeJE2HLqHAWpz9JHsAvm7AM+a53zjPfYmRvFCArVYFvENdJjPBuc9zestH18c1hQdIv5I2jnpWU+JC32t+XBVXwsNcWRbYfFN0kWRG4N+qrYIGCwtiQh72Lyw3+pHgNTfc90qo0CwcFSSoiJYfk1b2g= Received: by 10.114.89.1 with SMTP id m1mr9435669wab.1192602098231; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.202.19 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:21:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20071017011835.GH18279@machine.or.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/17/07, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:05:22AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> # Information about MS Windows version(s). Link to MSys Git, marking >> it as under development; perhaps plea for help? > > I'm not sure what in particular the MSys people want... They may want to > send patches, though. ;-) > > Maybe we could merge the (largely artificially separated anyway) > subproject subsections to a single alphabetically-ordered subsection and > include MSysGit there? I was thinking more about adding link to MSysGit / GitMe / WInGit in the "Getting Git"/"Binaries" section. I'm not sure what people who put this response in survey want... >> * Perhaps making some pages like FAQ or Tips and Tricks, or >> discussion about nature of branches in git taken from GitWiki when >> they are mature enough > > This touches a subject that I'm kind of surprised wasn't mentioned more, > that is the homepage-wiki duality. Are people happy with the current > setup? I kinda am, or would be if I got more patches. ;-) I'm personally > not too fond of having project's main homepage in wiki - > *especially* if it's made obvious by half of the screen space being > occupied by wiki-generated metalinks. But if everyone else thinks that > we should just move the main page to a wiki format, I won't stay in the > way. > > I'd like to use this space to also repeat that I never seriously > intended to maintain the technical side of the wiki, I've set up just > because it was so damn easy. I have grown to just hate the wiki engine > we use, and if someone wants to take the wiki over, you are welcome! I'm very happy with homepage / wiki separation. IMVHO having wiki for homepage is not a very good decision. I thought that wiki would be more staging area for homepage, and that some content after maturing would be put on homepage. -- Jakub Narebski