Re: Promoting Git developers

[David Lang <david@lang.hm>]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> David Lang <david@lang.hm> writes:
>
>> 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'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.
>
> I hope you are right, but my observation of our coverage by lwn.net
> is somewhat pessimistic.  In our early days, our progress often used
> to appear on the "Kernel Development" page, which I presume is the
> most important page of the weekly for the kernel developers, but in
> several months, the mention of us has moved two pages back to
> "Development" and listed together with folks like OCaml Weekly,
> PostgreSQL Weekly, etc.  I would not count that as "pretty good
> visibility" particularly.
>
> I am taking it as a positive change, though.  Once we got stable
> enough not to be a roadblock for the kernel folks and proven
> ourselves not to regress, our progress probably ceased to be
> newsworthy to them ;-)

It ceased to be about kernel development, and fell into the normal development 
bucket :-)

Routine release notes (like your notes from the maintainer) do end up just 
getting links to them as you have seen. But if someone is summarizing the 
discussions on the mailing list, those will be a bit more interesting, and if 
there is a particularly hot topic, the summary of that discussion can be a full 
fledged article on it's own.

David Lang