Hey, On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Michael J Gruber > > <g...@drmicha.warpmail.net> 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".
I'm sorry that you feel this way, but I've tried pretty hard to make sure the site is as neutral as possible. The only actual place the string "GitHub" occurs on the landing page is at the bottom where it says "This open sourced site is hosted on GitHub." I don't even mention anywhere that GitHub pays for hosting it. Also, all the Amazon referrals from Pro Git sales are donated to the Software Freedom Conservancy and all my personal royalties are donated to charity. It also very clearly states that the book is free to read online in it's entirety (which is actually relatively expensive for me personally, since I personally pay the S3 hosting and bandwidth costs for all the eBook downloads). I'm not sure why you think it doesn't look like a "project home". It has basically all the same information on it that you would find on any other project home page: a description, direct links to downloads, source code, documentation, a book, community and development information, etc. These are basically all the same things found on sites like http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ or https://subversion.apache.org/. > > It features "Companies & Projects Using Git" at the bottom. Not > "supporting" but "using". > > Linux is point 10 on that list. The first 6 items are Google, facebook, > Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Netflix. > > Even for an OpenSource project that does not buy into the Free Software > philosophy, that is a mostly embarrassing list of companies to advertise > for. Well, there are 16 groups listed on that page and 10 are open source projects and the remaining 6 are large companies using Git and open sourcing things using it. The idea of the list is to give people new to Git confidence that it is widely adopted both in the open source and corporate worlds. I also am not sure what's "embarrassing" about these companies - they all heavily participate in the open source community and many of them sponsor development of projects like Linux and Git. > > Personally, I consider the recent migration of the Emacs repository to > Git a bigger endorsement but then that's me. I would love to have Emacs on that page, actually. If you guys want me to add that, I'm happy to. I didn't know they moved over, I thought they were still a bzr shop. > > It might make sense to reduce this list just to "Projects" since those > are actually more tangible and verifiable. Or scrap it altogether. Sorry, I disagree with this. I think it's helpful for people to see some important corporations that are using it, since many people coming to the page are doing research to figure out if they want to switch to it in their companies. It also demonstrates that these large companies are participating in the open source community and it may help them decide to open source internal corporate projects as well, which I think is beneficial to everyone. Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
