Re: Git weekly news: 2008-49

["Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've been following the git tag at delicious.com[1] and there's quite
>> many interesting links, so I thought  on gathering them so the git
>> community can enjoy them in one pack :)
>
> Nice work, although I think better alternative would be to weed those
> links out, and put them in appropriate sections (or subsections) on
> Git Wiki; to be more exact on http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitLinks

Right, but next week the links will be different. This time the links
where not really from this week, but they will be on the next
iterations.

Somebody could pick the relevant links and add them in the wiki.

>> The blog post is here:
>> http://gitlog.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/git-weekely-news-2008-49/
>
> First, "Official git blog"? Official? There is nothing official about
> it. "Unofficial git blog", or "A git developer blog" (or "A git
> follower blog"; unfortunately names like gitter or gitster for git
> power user's, like TeXnician for TeX users, are taken by nicknames on
> #git, if I remember correctly).  Only git maintainer (Junio Hamano)
> and git development community (the git mailing list) can decide that
> something is "official" resource.

I asked in the mailing list and the only comment I got was: go ahead.
So yeah, that doesn't look like an "official" blessing, but it's not
bad either.

Anyway, my idea is that many gitsters will participate on this blog,
it's not my personal blog, I already have one.

Who wants an account?

> Second, I am a bit curious about 49 in "Git weekly news: 2008-49"
> name of the post.

It's the week number.

> Third, it is collection of links, not news[1].

True, "Git weekly links" sounds better?

> [1] It would be nice if somebody resurrected GitTraffic, offshot of
> now defunct KernelTraffic, or at least helped to write Git articles
> for KernelTrap (which currently is in a bit of hiatus).
>
>>
>> But here are the links anyway. The order is rather random.
>
> Moreover the _quality_ of those links is very random.

Exactly, I didn't choose them, that's what people have been tagging as
"git" in delicious.com. I'm subscribed to the RSS feed and saving the
ones that appear a lot.

In fact I don't like some of them, but that's what the "public" finds
interesting.

>> Why Git is Better than X
>> http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
>
> Quite good link from what I superficially checked, present in
> GitComparison wiki page.
>
>>
>> GitTorrent, The Movie
>> http://www.advogato.org/article/994.html
>
> This article is so full of bad information, exaggeration and
> hyperbole, that it would be better to forget about it, and not put it
> in the list.

It's popular, and a lot of people find it interesting. /me shrugs

>> Peer-to-peer Protocol for Synchronizing of Git Repositories
>> http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/
>
> Not news.

Right, but it is to many people.

<snip/>

Thanks for the comments, but gathering all these links is already
taking me more time that I wished.

> I have a host of links to blog posts with git or distributed version
> control info bookmarked...

My objective is to do this weekly. Maybe I'll put the links in a git
repo so people can see them before I make the post. Would you find
that useful?

As an example of possible links for next week:
My RubyGems development tools and workflow
http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/12/05/my-rubygems-development-tools-and-workflow/

Pushr, or the application will deploy itself
http://www.restafari.org/pushr-or-the-application-will-deploy-itself.html

-- 
Felipe Contreras