On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:30 -0500, 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.
I like the bug approach. > Though I prefer the first option: simply have some guidelines, and let > people figure things out by common sense / meritocracy / whatever. Problem is, most hackers do mildly abuse their commit access a couple times first when they get it. Mostly with no bad intention. It typically goes like "this patch of mine is so obviously fixing a bug, lets commit it", or "this is obviously broken, lets fix it". It takes a couple reverts to get it... So I expect we see quite a few "oh I have commit access now, my blog definitely belongs to p.g.o, lets commit it"... Jeff has already pointed that for example he has a strict rule on hackergotchis, and I think we all appreciate the uniform style of hackergotchis on p.g.o. Leave it to individuals and for example Zeenix will add one with a GObject shirt ;). > [I have a git-svn mirror of the planet-web module now, and my trigger > finger is getting twitchy ;) ] > > Federico -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
