Re: Official Git Homepage change? Re: git-scm.com

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:11:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

The people who design the new features and write code should have easy
access to the issues the users of all levels have with the software and
the documentation (and what they find useful as well).  What I am most
afraid of is that both "We do not bother the coders" and "We are too busy
to answer every newbie question" mentalities would lead to a fractured
community.

The community is already fractured! I think we actually have very tiny
fraction of the user base on the mailing list - the traffic is simply
too massive. After all we chose _our_ convenience over _users'_
convenience in making this tradeoff. Also, as I mentioned in the other
mail, it's not obvious to me whether major part of our community would
be willing to participate in any mailing list at all.

(Note that I don't want to imply that this would be inherently a Bad
Thing. Some feedback still bubbles through and we have ways like Jakub's
Git User Survey as well. Maybe the user community is by now simply too
big to make the direct cross-pollination with developers feasible.)

There was a proposal some time ago for making a web forum for Git; maybe
we were too dismissive to the suggestion. I wonder where *do* these 100k
of registered GitHubbers get their Git support now? :-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know
its true name.  -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie