Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it

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

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 July 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> 2009/7/3 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>
>> > The last replacements reminds me of the problem of announcing this
>> > survey.  Where to submit note announcing "Git User's Survey 2009"
>> > (tentative date of survey is 15 July 2009 -- 15 September 2009)?
>> > How such note should look like?
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean. I think the best place to announce these
>> kinds of things is through a post in an official blog.
>
> The problem is that there isn't "official blog" for Git.  There is
> gitster's (Junio C Hamano, git maintainer) blog at
>  http://gitster.livejournal.com/
> there is yours 'A git blog looking to be official' at
>  http://gitlog.wordpress.com/

I guess Junio's blog is the most official one ATM, but I'll post it on mine too.

And as I said before, if anyone wants to post in gitlog.wordpress.com
I can give you permissions; I don't want it to be *my* blog.

> Let me quote appropriate question from "Git User's Survey 2009" which
> lists possible announcement mechanisms I did think of:
>
>  29. How did you hear about this Git User's Survey?
>    * git mailing list
>    * git-related mailing list (msysGit, Git for Human Beings, ...)
>    * mailing list or forum of some project
>    * #git IRC channel topic
>    * announcement on IRC channel
>    * git homepage
>    * git wiki
>    * git hosting site
>    * software-related web site
>    * news web site or social news site
>    * blog
>    * other kind of web site
>    * Twitter or other microblogging platform
>    * other - please specify
>
> I will send announcement to Git mailing list (i.e. here) using
> "[ANNOUNCE]" in email subject, which means that 'GIT Mailing List
> RSS Feeds' script would pick it up for 'announce' feed
>  http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss
> which means that Ohloh would have it in "News" section for Git project:
>  http://www.ohloh.net/p/git
> (and it is easy to add announcement in "Journal Entries" at Ohloh).
>
> I can add announcement about Git User's Survey 2009 at Git Wiki and
> create page about it at
>  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2009
> I can ask Scott Chacon to put announcement on Git Homepage at
>  http://git-scm.com
>
> What other places to ask to put note about this survey?  For past
> surveys I was sending announcement to mailing list of projects using
> git (http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitProjects)... well, at least those
> which didn't require subscribing to mailing list before postiting on
> it (and even that for some cases can be worked around by sending
> announcement via GMane).  But with number of projects using git so
> large nowadays I don't think it is good approach...

I would recommend against posting on client projects; IMHO that's a bit spammy.

How about contacting big hosting sites; sourceforge, github, gitorious, etc. ?

-- 
Felipe Contreras