On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 5 July 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- 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