Hi, On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:07:04AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Since a while now, Ana has been doing a great job in providing the > news.debian.net service [1].
Ack, though personally, I see two things (unrelated to the discussion at hand) which Ana might want to consider: 1. Some (informal) posts are quoted too much in direct speech; I think it would be better to rewrite them editorially like e.g. LWN does. 2. I think the list of new packages is not very useful due to volume; I think it would make sense to trim down the list to only important packages and/or combine similar packages (different -plugins for the same base package for example) to one. However, the really important uploads are covered elsewhere anyway, so I just ignore those posts for now. > I personally find it a very useful service in "blog news" style: it > provides useful bit of information, it goes straight to the point, and > does not post too often (once/twice a week usually). > > I have been recently wondering [2] why that feed is not on Planet. Ana > would be glad to be there, but she has the impression that Planet > policy forbids non-individual feds to be there. I've been checking the > current guidelines which in fact _implicitly_ refers to individual > blogs. > > Given how useful the service is, and given that it does fulfill the > purpose of planet (most of the news are community-oriented news), can > we have it added to Planet? Note that Ubuntu has a planet-like service called the Fridge which aggregates several non-personal blogs (AIUI), maybe Debian could do the same (under a different title), and aggregate the non-personal blogs currently on Planet Debian (AFAIK, loldebian, Debconf, DSA, now Debian News) and possibly others (e.g. somebody could volunteer to write a one-paragraph summary of every d-d-a post which gets syndicated along with the link to the full post on the new service) I am fine with having Debian News on Planet, I think it is very worthwhile addition (considering loldebian is already on there). Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
