thought about putting the main blog posts on github and having pull
requests as the review process?


On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Niklas Nielsen <n...@qni.dk> wrote:

> +1 - Thanks for taking care of this!
>
> Niklas
>
> On Saturday, April 19, 2014, Benjamin Hindman <benjamin.hind...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sounds great Dave, thanks for writing this up! +1 to the outlined process
>> and starting with Google Docs instead of Review Board.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Vinod Kone <vinodk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks for seeding this discussion Dave. The points you make sound great
>> to me.
>>
>> +1 for the outlined process.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Dave Lester <daveles...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> tl;dr: Following discussion with PMC members, I'd like to kick off this
>> thread on the user list to discuss the future of community contributions on
>> the Mesos blog.
>>
>> First, I'd like to suggest that the project establishes a blog planet,
>> and encourages the community to add their feeds to create a real-time and
>> unfiltered snapshot of what's happening. In parallel, let's establish a
>> review process for posting to the community blog that can be shared by both
>> release managers and community members who would like to promote their
>> content on the official project blog.
>>
>> *BLOG PLANET*
>> A blog planet for Mesos 
>> (MESOS-649<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-649>)
>> would be an unfiltered feed of blog posts about Mesos, coming from blogs of
>> folks in the Mesos community. If you're not familiar with planets, here's
>> an example of one for Apache committers:
>> http://planet.apache.org/committers/.
>>
>> There are already a handful of people and companies blogging about the
>> project, and a planet will provide a single view of all that activity. It
>> also allows establishes a place where folks in the community can share what
>> they're up to, without having that explicit endorsement or review by the
>> Apache project itself. This will allow us to scale the number of blog posts
>> in the future with no bottleneck on the reviewers side, and enable bloggers
>> to publish freely.
>>
>> If others are interested in helping with this, I'd love to have a
>> discussion about the best way to integrate a planet into the existing
>> website. My goal would be to make sure it has a prominent place, while also
>> making it clear where posts originate.
>>
>> *BLOG REVIEW PROCESS*
>> But wait, why do we need a planet when we have a Mesos blog already?
>> Great question!
>>
>> In order to publish content on the Mesos website/official blog, we need a
>> review process of some kind to do some basic quality control and
>> more-importantly ensure that there is neutrality in the post itself. In
>> addition to preparing content for something that is committer-approved by
>> the time it lands on the site, it also lets us do other things like
>> coordinate the timing of publication with related tweeting/press, or with
>> cutting a release.
>>
>> I think it would be worth creating a separate thread on the subject of
>> neutrality in terms of what is contributed to the website and official
>> blog, where we could explicitly define a list of things we're looking
>> at/for to streamline this type of review. There are a number of things to
>> avoid posting to the official Apache blog, like encouraging community
>> members to have conversations in closed channels, directly linking to
>> non-Apache packages without proper disclaimers, etc. We'll enumerate these
>> for our own blog review, but the point being it's important for committers
>> to be aware of these rules before publishing on behalf of Apache.
>>
>> OK, so enough of the rules -- onto the process for a blog post author.
>> Ben Hindman suggested that we streamline the review process and do so in a
>> transparent manner, roughly recommending the following steps:
>>
>> (1) Interested parties post a draft of their current blog post to our 
>> dev@list (with appropriate markdown formatting)
>> (2) That post is reviewed by committers and the community
>> (3) Following a conclusion of discussion/revisions, and an appropriate
>> #shipit, an Apache committer publishes that post directly on the
>> mesos.apache <http://mesos.apache.org/blog/>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Niklas
>



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