From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: git-scm.com website (was: Promoting Git developers) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:51:02 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Christian Couder , David Kastrup , Junio C Hamano , git To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 09 16:51:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YUzxp-0007ge-Vx for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 16:51:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754586AbbCIPvZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:51:25 -0400 Received: from mail-yh0-f48.google.com ([209.85.213.48]:34733 "EHLO mail-yh0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753878AbbCIPvX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:51:23 -0400 Received: by yhaf73 with SMTP id f73so12041664yha.1 for ; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 08:51:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=spearce.org; s=google; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=4jcuK+02N2ecsz0CchHYKtYF4SYJIrF+fkzQ2kdsc+E=; b=WNCNxQAJUlo8kxRGq0+/eh4BGAhUNZSe3B5DSzW7mm0f8rK58cdu3f2keb/hFtVhwz Td+NxKPHLnckjroQchHS3NYdhOdrJhBvB0D5x4LClfFeQPy8I0iX5PbPv6ZjNZdKj9h1 c8GcfL5MwvUnI8S9uPS83JZ6Vv+Ktr93att0s= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type; bh=4jcuK+02N2ecsz0CchHYKtYF4SYJIrF+fkzQ2kdsc+E=; b=aSQuaMEr5RVgRMZq13EtDsCHgbVhILfrGgVpCcSuqJpOCue0OpELYGnJwSu6zdug48 rTX26dHhc5159WNYkKWHtCJ3q1JmzufR7smmQTUjgh9OO9x9CqhIZ1ijLyA8ZeXWok64 7GauPkaphsCOVnKvqW0VluzQPUJ+zvfXM2P9dvrVGun5FjoKWMXwGhjn0DI4u7st+6jY DkP29BDYBJDlrtXuXAt6038/EP7g1RNrDUTgcPRQGgU0jq4qyfmcNp3pBsyUCSXoQa0p MeJ21+XzujC0O5ucD3Rv1UNR7+URYqswzub+mKYtXAQ3jPv3Ex+lanlripMcTBgvkBDn liig== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnloFCEhC2IWezsu4+55HZcpGdo7O4eAgKT4MweTff04GCBfZHiqar0qLmtMVZhth1KQFg9 X-Received: by 10.236.4.138 with SMTP id 10mr26949580yhj.98.1425916282841; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 08:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.170.39.19 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > > Since we're talking business: git-scm.com still looks a bit like a > ProGit/Github promotion site. I don't have anything against either, and > git-scm.com provides a lot of the information that users are looking > for, and that are hard to find anywhere else; it's a landing page. It > just does not look like a "project home". Yes, git-scm.com is a place to point people. Before it was created by Scott Chacon (and others) there was no landing page for users looking for information on Git. After it was created, nobody else stepped up with a better alternative. Writing a website is hard. I have been struggling to make a better landing page for Gerrit Code Review[1,2]. I really do understand why Git C hackers aren't interested in sitting down to write prose, HTML and CSS. Many of the folks that have contributed to git-scm.com don't usually contribute C code, but their contribution to the project has still been beneficial by providing a landing page. git-scm.com is controlled by the Git project through its membership with the Conservancy. It could be redirected to another site if another site existed that better served end-users and the project better. [1] http://code.google.com/p/gerrit [2] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/homepage/+doc/HEAD/