From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Lang Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <54FDA6B5.8050505@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Christian Couder , Michael J Gruber , David Kastrup , git , Jeff King , Scott Chacon To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 17 06:56:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YXkUb-00022c-3B for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 06:56:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751144AbbCQF4g (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:56:36 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:33018 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750799AbbCQF4f (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:56:35 -0400 Received: from asgard.lang.hm (asgard.lang.hm [10.0.0.100]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id t2H5uIXO025124; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:56:18 -0800 X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Lang writes: > >> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>> Christian Couder 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