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 10:45 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 July 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> I guess Junio's blog is the most official one ATM,...
>>>
>>> Sorry, don't.
>>>
>>>  - Even if you are pretending to be a git community member, you are merely
>>>   a phoney if you are not reading it.
>>>
>>>  - If you want to be up-to-date with what is happening in the community,
>>>   you should be reading it.  Any important announcement always will
>>>   appear there.
>>>
>>> That would be an official blog.  I do not use mine that way, and nobody
>>> has to follow it in order to function better in the git land.
>>>
>>> It's like expecting Linus to announce the kernel release in his blog.
>>>
>>> Not going to happen.  The official channel of this community has always
>>> been this list.
>>>
>>> I'm OK if somebody declares that he will use his blog to relay important
>>> announcements from this list, to help blog minded people to follow it
>>> instead of reading the list.
>
> There is always http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss which extracts
> "[ANNOUNCE]" emails from git mailing list into an RSS feed, for those
> who prefer this way of watching for git news.

That's nice, although relatively unknown it seems.

>>> But that won't be me.
>>
>> I know there's no official git blog, I've tried to change that, but so
>> far that hasn't happened. IMHO for now the most popular git blog(s)
>> should announce the survey, I'll announce it at gitlog.wordpress.com
>> but it is far from being popular.
>>
>> I understand your position for not making your personal blog the
>> official one; I wouldn't do that on my personal blog either
>> (felipec.wordpress.com) that's why I created a separate blog for that,
>> where you, or anyone else, can do official git posts instead of on
>> their personal blog.
>
> It's just that somehow for "Git Development Community" a mailing list
> is enough.  We don't have official git blog, we don't have bugtracker
> (issue tracker).  At the beginning git didn't even had _homepage_.

How do you know that? Have you already asked that question in a survey
already? ;)

As an experiment I added http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss to my
Google Reader, and through some tricks you can actually see how many
people are subscribed to that feed: 26. For reference
gitlog.wordpress.com has 28, and Planet IM, a relatively unknown
planet: 844.

And I have many friends who don't follow git's mailing list, so no, I
don't think a mailing list is enough for official announcements.

It would be interesting to clone http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss
into gitlog.wordpress.com... I'll see if I can find a way to do that
:)

> A propos blogs: Elijah Newren writes from time to time about git
> on http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/ ; I think this blog is in a few
> GNOME planets, so if he were so kind as put announcement there
> when the time comes...  It would be good to have such announcement
> on some blog which is in Perl blog planet (Perlsphere and/or Planet
> Perl Iron Man), and similarly for other communities which rely on
> blogs (KDE, Ruby: anyone?).
>
> There is also http://www.versioncontrolblog.com (which is currently
> off-line, so I can't check who to contact).

Yeap, posting on planets will get a lot of attention.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras