On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Mike Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 15, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Mike Connor <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After a bit of an IRC sidebar with mhoye, I wanted to reframe this > conversation to a concise wording that (I think) reflects the core intent > of the Planet peers: > > > > =========== > > > > We're planning to move to an explicit tag model, where we will publish > only posts that are explicitly tagged as Mozilla. This is not intended to > exclude off-topic content, but to encourage a degree of intentionality > around the content individuals choose to publish to Planet. > > > > In terms of appropriate content, we believe the Mozilla Participation > Guidelines are a minimum baseline, and we expect everyone publishing on > Planet to abide by those guidelines in choosing where to publish. > > > > ============ > > > > I think this is a much simpler expression of intent, and something I’m > really happy to see as a small but concrete step toward improving Planet. > > > > Can we not achieve this through category based RSS feeds? It seems > pretty intentional that an author sends a request to peers and asks for a > feed to be added to Planet in the first place. > > > > A category or tag would be fair but not just a tag. > > Yeah, fair, software varies in how it does categorization. The core > intent is a shift from "publish automatically" to "publish intentionally” > on the part of authors. How we achieve that is a technical implementation > detail. > > The plan would be to switch over the general feeds to tag specific feeds by reaching out to blog owners. Tag/category are essentially the same for Planet purposes, people have used either for years with Planet. Technically speaking there's no difference.
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