Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:30 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> planet-web already exists, but making it a free-for-all isn't a useful >> solution. >> > > I re-read http://perkypants.org/blog/2005/06/10/1118362980/ and it > mentions the possibility of making the SVN module essentially a > free-for-all. > > .. And I quite like that possibility :) We can certainly have some > guidelines as to what a suitable blog is (though if we want to keep all > the current feeds, simply "is vaguely a contributor to GNOME and tends > to post in English" is about appropriate). For p.g.o I think it has > worked really well to *not* have strictly GNOME content; I'm sure many > people appreciate ocassional cool pictures from a music festival or sexy > recipes. > > If you are feeling super-paranoid, we can have a "Planet" module on > bugzilla, and we can point people to a page with instructions: > > 1. Get a bugzilla account. > > 2. File a bug under the Planet module. > > 3. A number of Trusted People(tm) get automatically CCed on the bug; > this can be yourself and other old fogeys. > > 4. We debate to death on the bug itself, so that the requester can be > aware of why his blog is / is not appropriate. > > 5. The blog gets added to the SVN module. > > Though I prefer the first option: simply have some guidelines, and let > people figure things out by common sense / meritocracy / whatever. > >
Here's an example of the bug ticket approach: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374113 D _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
