Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Andreas Ericsson[off-list ref] wrote:

Felipe Contreras wrote:

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On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Jakub Narebski[off-list ref] wrote:

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It's just that somehow for "Git Development Community" a mailing list
is enough.  We don't have official git blog, we don't have bugtracker
(issue tracker).  At the beginning git didn't even had _homepage_.

How do you know that? Have you already asked that question in a survey
already? ;)

The git developer community flourishes without official blogs, and it
did so even before we had a webpage. In truth, I visit the mailing
list archives more often than I visit the webpage. It doesn't *need* a
blog (or a forum, or a tracker, or whatever), but some people might
find such things helpful. Personally, I'm a huge fan of having it all
in one place.

I'm not saying a blog is needed for git to flourish.

I'm saying a blog would help to send official messages.

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As an experiment I added http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss to my
Google Reader, and through some tricks you can actually see how many
people are subscribed to that feed: 26. For reference
gitlog.wordpress.com has 28, and Planet IM, a relatively unknown
planet: 844.

And I have many friends who don't follow git's mailing list, so no, I
don't think a mailing list is enough for official announcements.

There are no forums suitable for everyone who are interested in git
development. We can (sort of) rely on package maintainers for the
various distros to keep track of groundbreaking changes. People who
compile from source are sort of on their own if they don't want to
follow the mailing list or in some other way find out what's going
on. I don't have a problem with that, and it matches what I'd have
expected myself if I was building something from source.

I'm not talking about people that compile git, I'm talking about the
bulk of the users; the ones who use package management to install git
and most of the time don't even know which version they are running
nor what new features are available.

In any case, you think there's no need for a blog, I think there is,
how about the rest of the users? Isn't that a question suitable for
asking in the survey?

-- 
Felipe Contreras