Re: git-scm.com website

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM, David Kastrup [off-list ref] wrote:

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

At the bottom of the git-scm.com page there is this blurb:

  This open sourced site is hosted on GitHub.
  Patches, suggestions and comments are welcome

And that text contains a link to the GitHub repository[1] where anyone
can propose modifications to the page. Unfortunately I don't know of
anyone paying out contribution stipends for content changes made to
git-scm.com.


[1] https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/README.md#contributing