Sounds complex. I'm more interested in posting my stuff on pig to the Pig blog than crafting a policy.
Do you have content you intend to contribute to the Ig blog, or is this merely theoretical? Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:49 PM, Santhosh M S <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not aware of the blogging guidelines from Apache. I could not locate any > links to that effect. > > I examined about 10 projects that have blogs on Apache and read/scanned about > 50 of the entries. My search was not exhaustive and nor was it meant to be > conclusive. It was a sample.I was trying to check if there were any blogs of > the form: > > 1. "A blog on X has been posted over on http://Y, go take a look" - None > > 2. Blogs that were reposted with a link back - None (see # 5 below for a > similar case) > > 3. Blogs that had a link to a corporate site directly with the name of the > company - 2 (Apache Open Office had links for downloads in an interview along > with the name of the company with links that the interviewees were at and > Apache Click had the name of the blogger and to the site of the book) > - http://blogs.apache.org/click/ (See entry for Jan 5, 2010 and Oct 24, 2009) > > - http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ (See entry for Jun 18, 2012) > > > 4. Blog that had a link to a corporate site without mentioning the name of > the company - 2 (Apache Open Office had one link to a personal blog and > Apache Click had 4 links for examples) > - http://blogs.apache.org/click/ (See entry for May 8, 2010) > - http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ (See entry for Jan 19, 2012) > > 5. Blog that had the name of a corporation without any links - 2 (Apche HBase > - TrendMicro is mentioned and Apache Flume - Cloudera was mentioned as the > venue for a meetup) > - https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/coprocessor_introduction (a link to > the original blog that no longer exists is presented without a hyperlink) > - https://blogs.apache.org/flume/entry/apache_flume_hackathon > > Could we repost the entire blog and indicate that this blog originally > appeared here with the here being a hyperlink to the corporate blog without > mentioning the name of the corporation. > > More thoughts? > > Santhosh > > > ________________________________ > From: Russell Jurney <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:17 PM > Subject: Re: Pig as Connector with MongoDB and Node.js > > I like the idea of re-blogging the entire thing with a link back to > the company. Blogs take time, and time is money, so posting to the Pig > blog first isn't likely. Even personal posts about Pig on my blog > datasyndrome.com, I'd rather post them on my blog and reblog/link back > on the Pig blog. This is consistent with common practice. > > The real point here is to get common place to recognize, index and > distribute blog post HOWTOs as documentation. If there's value in the > post, we should reblog it with a link back. > > Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com > > On Aug 21, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are you saying we should only post things to the Pig blog that isn't already >> on a corporate blog? I'm not sure that's going to fly, since companies pay >> people to write blogs for them. They aren't going to be excited to publish >> on Apache first. >> >> If we don't feel comfortable posting things on the Pig blog that have >> already been posted on a corporate blog we could instead post very short >> blogs entries that say something like "A blog on X has been posted over on >> http://Y, go take a look". >> >> Alan. >> >> On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Santhosh M S wrote: >> >>> Thanks Alan! I went to that site before my previous email and I did not >>> find anything and hence the post. >>> >>> If the content has no association with any corporation, we should first >>> post it on the Apache Pig Blog and then cross post it on the corporate >>> blog. This way, we can decouple the community interests from the corporate >>> interests. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Santhosh >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Alan Gates <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 3:20 PM >>> Subject: Re: Pig as Connector with MongoDB and Node.js >>> >>> http://blogs.apache.org/pig/ >>> >>> We don't have any posts there yet. >>> >>> Alan. >>> >>> On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Santhosh M S wrote: >>> >>>> Before we post the blog, can someone post the URL for the Apache Pig Blog. >>>> Search engine queries are not returning anything useful. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Santhosh >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________ >>>> From: Jonathan Coveney <[email protected]> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 12:09 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Pig as Connector with MongoDB and Node.js >>>> >>>> I'm ok with that as long as it is clear it came from a corporate blog, and >>>> of course, if people feel uncomfortable they should voice that opinion. >>>> >>>> I think it is good to show that a variety of people use Pig, and I mean, >>>> it's not really a surprise that Pig is developed, used, and promoted by >>>> corporations :) >>>> >>>> 2012/8/17 Alan Gates <[email protected]> >>>> >>>>> I'm happy to repost these kinds of blog entries on the Pig blog. But one >>>>> thing we as a community need to decide is how we want to handle references >>>>> to corporate blogs. My proposal would be that any entries supporting and >>>>> promoting Apache Pig should be allowed. But I have an obvious conflict of >>>>> interest here, so I'd like to get other people's inputs. >>>>> >>>>> Alan. >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 16, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Russell Jurney wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I wrote a Pig tutorial to publish data with Mongo and Node.js. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> http://hortonworks.com/blog/pig-as-connector-part-one-pig-mongodb-and-node-js >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it possible to reblog on the Pig blog? >>>>>> >>>>>> Russell Jurney >>>>>> twitter.com/rjurney >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> datasyndrome.com
