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From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:39:12 -0700 (PDT)
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On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I wrote something about a potential Git Rev News news letter:
>
> I read it.  Sounds promising.
>
> Just one suggestion on the name and half a comment.
>
> How would "Git Review" (or "Git Monthly Review", or replace your
> favourite "how-often-per-period-ly" in its name) sound?  I meant it
> to sound similar to academic journals that summarize and review
> contemporary works in the field and keeps your original "pun" about
> our culture around "patch reviews".
>
> I obviously do not know how the actual contents would look like at
> this point, but depending on the quality of the publication I might
> be able to steal some descriptions when keeping the notes on topics
> in flight that appear in my "What's cooking" report.  And it can go
> the other way around, too.  The publication may want to peek my
> "What's cooking" report for hints on how to characterize each topic
> and assess its impact to the evolution of Git.

I'll bet that LWN would publish, or at least link to, such articles on a regular 
basis, and if you end up doing an in-depth writeup on a particularly discussed 
topic, they would probably give it pretty good visibility.

David Lang