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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
To: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce•org>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-scm.com website
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:06:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4n6kvdu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJo=hJsbbfK-_qX6sg3Azk30Kz5ebLfyMbVF98VzHZe8YyaLcQ@mail.gmail.com> (Shawn Pearce's message of "Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:51:02 -0700")

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce•org> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@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".
>
> Yes, git-scm.com is a place to point people.

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.

Personally, I consider the recent migration of the Emacs repository to
Git a bigger endorsement but then that's me.

It might make sense to reduce this list just to "Projects" since those
are actually more tangible and verifiable.  Or scrap it altogether.

-- 
David Kastrup

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-09 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-09 15:51 git-scm.com website (was: Promoting Git developers) Shawn Pearce
2015-03-09 16:06 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-03-09 16:19   ` git-scm.com website Shawn Pearce
2015-03-09 16:37     ` David Kastrup
2015-03-09 17:12       ` Christian Couder
2015-03-09 17:52         ` Scott Chacon
2015-03-09 19:24           ` Jeff King
2015-03-09 20:18             ` David Kastrup
2015-03-09 21:07               ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-03-09 17:14   ` Scott Chacon
2015-03-09 17:30     ` Stefan Beller
2015-03-09 17:49     ` David Kastrup
2015-03-09 17:54       ` Stefan Beller
2015-03-09 18:02       ` David Kastrup
2015-03-10  9:07     ` Michael J Gruber

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