Last year I reported on the state of the git-scm.com website: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202023349.7fopb3a6pc6dkcmd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ There was a little bit of public discussion, and I privately got approximately one zillion offers to host the site or otherwise help with it. Thank you to everybody who responded. Here's an update on what happened since then: - we now have a small group of maintainers able to triage incoming bug reports and patches, and generate some fixes. Thanks especially to Jean-Noël Avila, Pedro Rijo, and Samuel Lijin for their work over the past year. - we resolved most of the performance issues. These were partly due to some inefficient database queries, but mostly it was resolved with lots and lots of caching. The main problem, it turned out, is just that we get a _lot_ of hits. Like 5-6 million requests per day (that's individual HTTP requests; analytics report that we get close to 200,000 unique visitors on any given weekday). Details on the caching are in the architecture document below. - the site remains a rails app. This is probably overkill, but it was the path of least resistance to keep it one. Converting to a static site would require at least some grunt-work, but also figuring out some solution for the site-wide search. There's no immediate plan to move to anything else. - previously the site was being paid for by GitHub (and was tied to GitHub's Heroku account). We could have continued that indefinitely, but I wanted to move it to a community-owned account. That happened (details in the architecture document). Rather than ask for money from GitHub or elsewhere to cover hosting costs (which would have been easy -- we had quite a few offers!), I instead approached the companies whose services we're using to host the site and asked for direct sponsorship. Every one of them was happy to oblige, and Heroku in particular was helpful with migrating the site to the new account. So we're currently receiving free service from Heroku, Cloudflare, and Bonsai. - I've written up a few documents about how the site is organized. One higher-level page on the site for bug reporters, etc: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/pull/1172/files and one more detailed architecture document: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.md So at this point I think the site is in reasonably good shape going forward. One of the long-standing issues is that the design is not very responsive, and looks bad on phones and tablets. Jason Long, who did much of the original site design, is working on a visual refresh that should fix this and update some of the messier and outdated parts of the CSS and related tooling. The plan is to have the refresh running alongside the production site soon, so that we can gather feedback and iterate from there. -Peff
