Re: git-scm.com website
flat view
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:quoted
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