Re: Git User's Survey 2007 summary - git homepage improvements

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On 10/17/07, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:05:22AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

>>  # Information about MS Windows version(s). Link to MSys Git, marking
>>    it as under development; perhaps plea for help?
>
> I'm not sure what in particular the MSys people want... They may want to
> send patches, though. ;-)
>
> Maybe we could merge the (largely artificially separated anyway)
> subproject subsections to a single alphabetically-ordered subsection and
> include MSysGit there?

I was thinking more about adding link to MSysGit / GitMe / WInGit in the
"Getting Git"/"Binaries" section. I'm not sure what people who put this response
in survey want...

>>  * Perhaps making some pages like FAQ or Tips and Tricks, or
>>    discussion about nature of branches in git taken from GitWiki when
>>    they are mature enough
>
> This touches a subject that I'm kind of surprised wasn't mentioned more,
> that is the homepage-wiki duality. Are people happy with the current
> setup? I kinda am, or would be if I got more patches. ;-) I'm personally
> not too fond of having project's main homepage in wiki -
> *especially* if it's made obvious by half of the screen space being
> occupied by wiki-generated metalinks. But if everyone else thinks that
> we should just move the main page to a wiki format, I won't stay in the
> way.
>
> I'd like to use this space to also repeat that I never seriously
> intended to maintain the technical side of the wiki, I've set up just
> because it was so damn easy. I have grown to just hate the wiki engine
> we use, and if someone wants to take the wiki over, you are welcome!

I'm very happy with homepage / wiki separation. IMVHO having wiki for
homepage is not a very good decision. I thought that wiki would be
more staging area for homepage, and that some content after maturing
would be put on homepage.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
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