From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Chacon" Subject: Re: git-scm.com Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:30:29 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6b6419750807251838h12ea4f19gdff107694e3797c4@mail.gmail.com> <20080726023707.GX32184@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Petr Baudis" , "Patrick Aljord" , "git list" To: david@lang.hm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 26 07:31:37 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 1KMcNT-0001QL-Gs for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:31:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752100AbYGZFab (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752096AbYGZFab (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:30:31 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:24878 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751945AbYGZFaa (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:30:30 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so2287740waf.23 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:30:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=cC0UIvSZSoY43dGLW2V7mbJNBrrKHW+/9oVni0oTDyo=; b=NFvy+TaIqXalGpE78pE5G3CCMNeeY25CWDiPBsMD1rK/gx/j3uINBPt06d+r1PC8Rg jPi1nS3QdszL2ZH7h7iaWd3TvLlU/BzO6FEsvs5Q2qLMFSbakjvvfjPkaddVeuAAPgI8 f5X12AND7Boq83Q+t69RDHarDfmwE8aeXy8yY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=M+RQv3vhTk77BQojdB6moKESNphtjR3Q6yMrpnqwzkHfhk68v9bR/sKibkxpRixEX7 h8qyNYF8tyzRIjK3XdGn5g2yW6Oy6YZ/KgrvRe5xBIFALm9UwvCOlw0jJ9A9vW7OfFD0 oJMYl5h36equklbynaVm3yiGKKtWciHDQIUeM= Received: by 10.114.168.15 with SMTP id q15mr2883794wae.167.1217050229664; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.22.20 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:30:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:47 PM, wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:28:32PM -0700, Scott Chacon wrote: >>> >>> I am more concerned about the logo at the bottom, and Petr and I are >>> discussing this - I can remove the logo, but then I'd have to pay for >>> this out of my pocket instead of having a small logo on the page. >> >> I actually think that this is *one* reference to GitHub that is >> perfectly and 100% okay; if it is sponsoring the hosting, it deserves >> the logo, and it is fairly non-intrusive. I _am_ watching out warily >> for excessive GitHub references within the rest of the site - if only >> because I have kind of personal interest in a competitor of GitHub and >> thus don't want GitHub to get unwarranted free advertising. :-) >> >> Petr "Pasky" Baudis > > since this is a Ruby on Rails site, could the 'five links' that have been > bothering people be randomly selected? if every time you go to the site you > get a different list of projects it show how broadly git is used. it's not > as 'in your face' as managing to select five that cause people to say "wow, > they're using this", but different people will react to different sites. > > if this table gets populated by GitHub, kernel.org, and a couple other > sources it should be vendor independant enough (and we need a table like > this anyway for the 'list of projects that use git', so it serves two > purposes) > > David Lang > I would really like to have the big ones there all the time ('Linux', 'Ruby on Rails', 'WINE', 'X.org', etc) Prototype and MooTools are pretty big in the web dev world, which a lot of people are starting to come from - at least Prototype should be there all the time. For the rest, if we want to pool a bunch of other projects from different places, that would be cool, but they should be active - I don't want people clicking on something above the fold and getting a dead project. If someone wants to help me vet a list, I'd be happy to do that. However, that being said, it's going to be difficult to have Github projects not dominate the list a bit. The fact is that it hosts far, far more projects than any other single hosting service. Just in fully public projects, the current stats (from the website pages) are something like this: kernel.org : 475 repo.or.cz : 1,553 gitorious : 780 github : 10,560 It hosts far more than that if you include private projects, too. So, if we want to choose totally randomly, it's going to be at least a 5:1 ratio between github projects and all other public hosting providers. If anything, statistically, the current list is conservative in it's links to github projects. For me to avoid using them is artificially punishing them for having paid plans, which is silly. Scott