Dead links, broken search box, confusing/inconvenient contact

Dead links, broken search box, confusing/inconvenient contact

[Stefan Pochmann]

1) The links to Matthew's lists on the bottom of
http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis are dead (I get 404s).

2) Wondering whether TortoiseGit is mentioned anywhere, I typed
tortoisegit into the top right search box, hit enter and got to
http://git-scm.com/search/results?search=tor (note the ending - I did
type the whole word but it got cut off!). I'm not *that* fast at
typing, but apparently I'm still way too fast for the search box, as
it does work when I wait a second or two before I hit enter.

3) Trying to contact you I first looked at the bottom of the page, the
link to https://github.com/github/gitscm-next was the only that made
some sense, and there I don't see contact information, even though
that README does say " contact me first" at some point (and who is
that "me"?).

4) When I found this email address and sent a mail with items 1)-3), I
got a rejection reply saying " The message contains HTML subpart".
Very annoying. I'm trying to help here by pointing out problems, and
you're making it really inconvenient.

Re: Dead links, broken search box, confusing/inconvenient contact

[Stefan Beller]

Hi Stefan,

On 10/03/2013 07:50 PM, Stefan Pochmann wrote:
> 1) The links to Matthew's lists on the bottom of
> http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis are dead (I get 404s).
> 

git-scm is an open sourced site and hosted on GitHub.
It is providing some information for git, but also on github.
(It was started by the github founder iirc)
Improvements by your own or just filling an issue, would be best at
https://github.com/github/gitscm-next



> 2) Wondering whether TortoiseGit is mentioned anywhere, I typed
> tortoisegit into the top right search box, hit enter and got to
> http://git-scm.com/search/results?search=tor (note the ending - I did
> type the whole word but it got cut off!). I'm not *that* fast at
> typing, but apparently I'm still way too fast for the search box, as
> it does work when I wait a second or two before I hit enter.

Same thing, it's git-scm related, please get in touch there.

> 
> 3) Trying to contact you I first looked at the bottom of the page, the
> link to https://github.com/github/gitscm-next was the only that made
> some sense, and there I don't see contact information, even though
> that README does say " contact me first" at some point (and who is
> that "me"?).

I'd assume the "me" is https://github.com/schacon the founder of github.
The README may be outdated there.
This is the mailing list for the git project, which is run by different
people than the github company.

> 
> 4) When I found this email address and sent a mail with items 1)-3), I
> got a rejection reply saying " The message contains HTML subpart".
> Very annoying. I'm trying to help here by pointing out problems, and
> you're making it really inconvenient.

On this mailing list html is not appreciated as you wouldn't gain much
from it with respect to the development or discussion of git, only
larger emails.

Thanks for writing to the list, but it may be not the best place for
reporting git-scm.com issues.

Thanks,
Stefan

Re: Dead links, broken search box, confusing/inconvenient contact

[Tay Ray Chuan]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Stefan Pochmann
<stefan.pochmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> 4) When I found this email address and sent a mail with items 1)-3), I
> got a rejection reply saying " The message contains HTML subpart".
> Very annoying. I'm trying to help here by pointing out problems, and
> you're making it really inconvenient.

Majordomo, the software that runs this mailing list (and many others)
considers HTML to be a mark of spam:

  Usage of HTML in email -- even as an alternate format -- is
considered to be signature characteristics of SPAM.

source: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Just want to point out it's not "us".

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan