Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 5 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: git-scm.com website

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From: David Kastrup <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:04:06

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:
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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
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