Any comment about upcoming Git Rev News edition 121

[chriscool]

A currently mostly empty draft will be there soon:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-121.md

Feel free to comment in this issue, suggest topics, suggest persons to interview, or use the edit button (that looks like a pen) to edit and create a pull request with the changes you would like.

Let's try to publish this edition around the end of March 2025!

This will be a special edition as we will celebrate !!!10 years of Git Rev News!!! as the first edition was published on March 25, 2015. That's why this issue is created a bit earlier than usual, so we can start preparing it a bit in advance.

Thanks!

cc @jnareb @mjaix @sivaraam @gitster @stepnem

[chriscool]

As suggested by @sivaraam in the previous edition, lets gather some statistics to write an analysis on the editions so far and hopefully gather some interesting or fun insights and publish them in an article in this edition.

We could gather the following:

• Number of people who have contributed according to the "Credits" section at the bottom of each edition.
• Number of articles that we've written in the whole "Discussions" section.
• Number of articles about the GSoC and about Outreachy.
• Number of links that have been shared so far, or more precisely, number of entries in the whole "Other News" section.
• Number of interviews.
• Number of people interviewed twice (or possibly more).
• Number of releases in the "Releases" section.

Other ideas?

[To1ne]

It seems it has been a while there was a video in the "Easy Watching" category (edition 111 ?). So I'd like to plug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zigbUJHBsL4. It's made by @JackLot who created the learngit.io course, which was also mentioned in edition 108.

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GitButler has a steady stream of Git related video's as well. Personally I didn't really enjoy the last two videos (but here are the links anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbW9wlve8sI (released last week) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdSllNeQuVc (released two weeks ago)). These are fictional Git interview questions, I'm not sure how well that topic fits in Git Rev News?

On the other hand, their video about Git Notes was really good. But that video was released in January and is Christmas themed, so I'd feel a bit odd adding it to March's Rev News. I'll keep an eye out for future videos and post back here.

[chriscool]

Thanks @To1ne for the suggestions!

[DanieleSassoli]

Not sure if this is appropriate content for this mailing list, but I've recently wrote a how to guide for new Gerrit Code Review users, could fit in the "Light reading" section? You can find it at [1].

I also don't know if this mailing list is interested in JGit development, but if so I can probably link a few youtube videos on some interesting recent performance optimizations in that space.

[1] https://gitenterprise.me/2025/03/10/gerrit-code-review-a-how-to-guide-for-new-users/

[chriscool]

@DanieleSassoli thanks for the suggestions§ @jnareb takes care of the links section, so he will decide on them.

Also please note that Git Rev News is a news letter, not really a mailing list.

[chriscool]

We might want to write a short article about Usman and Seyi successfully finishing their Outreachy internship.

[jnareb]

As suggested by @sivaraam in the previous edition, lets gather some statistics to write an analysis on the editions so far and hopefully gather some interesting or fun insights and publish them in an article in this edition.

We could gather the following:

• Number of people who have contributed according to the "Credits" section at the bottom of each edition.
• Number of articles that we've written in the whole "Discussions" section.

Maybe also find out most common sources of articles - looking at the hostname of the site that hosts linked article. Or most prolific cited authors.

• Number of articles about the GSoC and about Outreachy.
• Number of links that have been shared so far, or more precisely, number of entries in the whole "Other News" section.

Maybe also some statistics, like average and median number of links per edition, splitting into articles (and the like) and tools (and sites).

It might be interesting to compute what percentage of links are accompanied with at least one link to previous edition, either as a summary, or even how this number changed with time.

• Number of interviews.
• Number of people interviewed twice (or possibly more).
• Number of releases in the "Releases" section.

Other ideas?

• Date of publication as day of the month (taking into account possible slippages into next month as values above 30/31), versus edition number ;-)
• Average number of words, lines, and paragraphs of writeups in "Discussion" section.
• Word cloud, or topic detection of articles in "Discussion" section - if feasible (and possible).

[chriscool]

@sivaraam @jnareb and all, I have started working on such a project:

https://gitlab.com/chriscool/git-rev-news-analyzer

Let's discuss on that project. Feel free to open issues, MRs, etc. I can give you the right to push to the 'main' branch if you want. (Just give me your GitLab username.) We can also use the TODO.md for small short things we are planning to do.

[sivaraam]

That's great to hear @chriscool ! I'll try to help with the same when I find some time. My GiLab handle is sivaraam too.

[chriscool]

@sivaraam thanks, I have invited you as a Maintainer.

[jnareb]

@sivaraam @jnareb and all, I have started working on such a project:

https://gitlab.com/chriscool/git-rev-news-analyzer

Let's discuss on that project. Feel free to open issues, MRs, etc. I can give you the right to push to the 'main' branch if you want. (Just give me your GitLab username.) We can also use the TODO.md for small short things we are planning to do.

I wonder if mdq: jq for Markdown (stream query language for Markdown) could be used for that purpose.

I did not yet look at the tool...

[jnareb]

That's great to hear @chriscool ! I'll try to help with the same when I find some time. My GiLab handle is sivaraam too.

I'd like to help, too... if I can find some spare time. My GitLab handle is @jnareb, like here on GitHub.

[chriscool]

Thanks @jnareb ! I have invited you as a Maintainer too.

[jnareb]

• Date of publication as day of the month (taking into account possible slippages into next month as values above 30/31), versus edition number ;-)

Without slippage, and with single correction 2022-09-31 -> 2022-09-30: