Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be wrote: planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing? As has been already said, I'm not sure it's the most visible media. If it is, it's probably

planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Dear candidates, [I don't intend to start a flame war, but I do have venom for planets] planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing? DFSG / rc-buggy ¨¨¨ I consider blogs as non-free, proprietary

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Nico Golde
Hey, * Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be [2010-03-27 13:44]: [I don't intend to start a flame war, but I do have venom for planets] planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing? [...] On what are you basing this

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, Sorry if we are getting a little bit off-topic, feel free to follow up on debian-project (I would still be interested by the candidates PoV) On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 14:49 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: Hey, * Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be [2010-03-27 13:44]: [I don't intend to start a flame war,

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 27 mars 2010 à 13:39 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT a écrit : DFSG / rc-buggy ¨¨¨ I consider blogs as non-free, proprietary material (a very few have a proper license, the distribution media s*cks anyway). Breaks DFSG #1: A document (HowTo...) published on planet can't be

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:39:06PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Dear candidates, [I don't intend to start a flame war, but I do have venom for planets] planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing? Not

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:39:06PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: planet.d.o has became one of the most visible media for Debian, if not the most visible one. Do you think it is a good thing? Our Planet, like any other Planet out there, is just what it is: an aggregator of individual blogs.

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:03:06PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: I doubt that a lot of users are reading planet (why should they..). IT specialist and corporate consumers want to know what is going on for the next release. Well, if they use planet.d.o for that, is their problem. Actually, it

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Nico Golde wrote: when it comes to our users. I have no numbers to prove that but I doubt that a lot of users are reading planet (why should they..). Because: j...@gnu:~/tmp/xscreensaver-5.10grep planet.debian.org -r . ./debian/patches/53_XScreenSaver.ad.in.patch:+*textURL:

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 17:56 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 27 mars 2010 à 13:39 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT a écrit : DFSG / rc-buggy ¨¨¨ I consider blogs as non-free, proprietary material (a very few have a proper license, the distribution media s*cks anyway).

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: I consider blogs as non-free, proprietary material (a very few have a proper license, the distribution media s*cks anyway). I didn't notice a license on your email either. But every time I recall licenses of email being discussed, the conclusion has been that it doesn't

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: Because: j...@gnu:~/tmp/xscreensaver-5.10grep planet.debian.org -r . ./debian/patches/53_XScreenSaver.ad.in.patch:+*textURL: http://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml ./debian/changelog:+ Now use planet.debian.org instead of .net Which is run regularly by 10%

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:57:41PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: May be some content could be moved to collaborative media, bts, etc May be some I am doing something post could be turned into a news May be that allowing comments should be a best practice A corporate blog is just

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: May be that allowing comments should be a best practice http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/comments.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: planet.debian.org is RC buggy (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be wrote: The content isn't archived. Is this a problem? a feature? Actually the text at least is archived (but not exactly like a mailing list), an example: http://planet.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?terms=DPL -- bye, pabs