Any comment about upcoming Git Rev News edition 112

[chriscool]

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-112.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 June 2024!

Thanks!

cc @jnareb @mjaix @sivaraam @gitster @stepnem

[chriscool]

In the issue for the previous edition @jnareb suggested:

The following discussion might be of interest (if it will take more shape before publishing this edition):

[RFC PATCH] docs: document upcoming breaking changes

[chriscool]

Draft email sent: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD1eH8GXn=aER56FVvrh90f_c+VdxdtopJmDYwPend52gQ@mail.gmail.com/

[davvid]

Garden and Git Cola both had a feature release. These should be in the version check script so it might just need a rerun to refresh.

[chriscool]

@davvid right, thanks! This should be fixed now.

[jnareb]

My links have been added in e8bc2b9 (including one LWN.net SubscriberLink).

[bpugh]

Hi all,
I look forward to reading the newsletter every month and thought I'd take a peek at the upcoming issue and the link "Pull Request vs Merge Request" caught my eye so I clicked on it but after reading it I wonder whether it actually adds any value or might even confuse some people.

At best, it seems like an unnecessarily long way to say the only real difference is the terminology that Github and Gitlab use.
But I think it's also confusing since they have two different sections where they describe the "workflow" of each but they are basically the same just reworded enough to look like slightly different processes.

Towards the end they also mention "Beyond terminology, there might be slight variations in functionalities depending on the platform. GitLab offers features like:" and they list:

• Merge conflict detection
• Approval rules

But this implies that Github doesn't offer these features when in fact they do.

I don't think there's anything wrong with plugging a product at the end of a post but it didn't feel like they really tried to write a useful post.
Maybe it's just me and I'm being too critical, but to me it comes across as them just trying to meet some content quota to drive SEO for their product.
I totally understand if you all think it's still worthwhile to include in the newsletter but I just thought I should mention my concern.

Thanks and I appreciate all the work you all do in putting together the newsletter!

[chriscool]

@jnareb thanks for the great links!

@bpugh thanks for your opinion on that link! @jnareb will decide about keeping the link or not.

[mjaix]

Hi Chris, sorry that I did not have time yesterday - I plan to look over edition 112 before 13:00 today, if that's OK with you. I am pretty sure @stepnem and other already caught most errors (if not all :-). Best regards, Markus

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[chriscool]

Hi @mjaix, no worries. 13:00 CET is OK for me.

[jnareb]

@bpugh thanks for your comment. I have removed the "Pull Request vs. Merge Request: Essential Differences" article (5bbbcd4).

[mjaix]

Added some tiny fixes and rephrasings in 180cc4c [1]. Please scrutinize as usual. [1] 180cc4c 180cc4c

[chriscool]

@mjaix your changes look great, thanks!

[chriscool]

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