From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Official Git Homepage change? Re: git-scm.com Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:09:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20080726020951.GV32184@machine.or.cz> References: <20080726015314.GU32184@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Scott Chacon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 26 04:11:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KMZFL-00042o-BJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:10:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752162AbYGZCJy (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:09:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752159AbYGZCJy (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:09:54 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:57242 "EHLO machine.or.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752129AbYGZCJy (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:09:54 -0400 Received: by machine.or.cz (Postfix, from userid 2001) id 8EB54393B32A; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:09:51 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080726015314.GU32184@machine.or.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, oops, so I decided to unbundle this question from the previous post, but forgot to modify the subject line... When the git-scm.com site gets refined a bit further, it might make a lot of sense to make http://git.or.cz/index.html a redirect to http://git-scm.com/ and thus delegate the new site to the official Git homepage. Of course, I would be transferring the control of the homepage from my hands so I would like to poll the community about how do people feel about this - opinion of core Git contributors would be especially welcome; I find myself rather happy with the new site, so I will implicitly take silence as an agreement. Here is a breakdown of possible pros and cons that come on my mind: + The new site has much nicer and more catchy design. + The new site seems to have a lot of potential to grow to a rather comprehensive resource. + The new site would probably have much more active maintainer. ;-) - The new site is affiliated with a commercial entity - GitHub. The website maintainer also has commercial interest in some published Git learning materials, which might generate certain conflict of interests; we must trust them that they handle this well. - Both GitHub and Scott seem to be rather distanced from the "core" Git development community. This might or might not be an issue. - The new site is implemented in much more complicated way than the old one, having a full-fledged Ruby on Rails machinery behind it and linking to bunch of obfuscated JavaScript code; I don't think it's that big a deal, though. The negatives section writeup is longer, but in fact I think the positives win here; I also have a bit of bad conscience about not giving git.or.cz the amount of time it would deserve... P.S.: To simplify matters, I talk only about index.html, but of course it would make sense to transfer both the SVN Crash Course _AND_ the Git Wiki along; we might keep the Cogito homepage for purely historical interest too, I don't know. -- 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