On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 4 July 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> 2009/7/3 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html