Did we ever agree a policy about what's acceptable/reasonable for
blog feeds linked from planet.d.o? I'm very tempted to disable Ian
Murdock's Solaris propaganda, for example...

Thoughts?

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On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 17:54 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:

I don't think there's no policy.

Rumors say that only Debian collaborators could be aggregated and no
websites. That's mostly the policy I'm aware of. Besides, from my
experience administering a couple of heavily visited aggregators,
providing very strict policy on them is a huge pain in the arse, both
for readers, administrators and bloggers. I really think it's OK the way
it is, since it's not behaved shamelessly.

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On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 05:54:12PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:

Well, maybe in 2 or 3 years he'll be on-topic, no so long time ago, it
was about Windows, at least Solaris is an Unix.

*cough*
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On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 04:22:44PM -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote:

Personally I think it's often rather interesting if a Debian
collaborator writes about non-Debian things. The collaborative other
interests of all of them is a curious picture and often tells
something about other (interesting) free software related
activities/projects.

So I mostly agree with this.

steve@einval.com wrote:

His blog is way more interesting than some other people's blogs which
apparently have no noticeable Debian-related (or UN*X-related, for what
matters) content.
If you do not agree with him just flame him from your blog in the fine
tradition of Planet Debian.

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On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 00:50 +0100, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:

Exactly, I was only meaning that the only apparent requirement (or
wannabe policy) is being a Debian development collaborator.

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David Moreno Garza espiral.org.mx> wrote:

and posting in English.

However, I feel there have been some nasty unsubscriptions before.

Why not ask Ian Murdock by email to increase his debian content,
reduce his Solaris content or reconsider his planet feeding, if that's
what's wanted?

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Steve McIntyre dijo [Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 05:54:12PM +0100]:

I see the planet as just the collection of weblogs of people involved
in Debian - Including personal stuff, fun stuff, random ideas - And of
course, interesting Debian- or just FS- related projects and
discussion. I don't think we need a content polic[ye] of any sort.

But then again: Ian Murdock is there because he is the Debian founder,
right? I do not know if nowadays he is in any actual way _related to_
Debian. Yes, not all Planet members are DDs (nor should they, of
course!), but they are better or worse connected to the project. Is
Ian so?

Greetings,

Gunnar Wolf gwolf.org> writes:

Steve McIntyre einval.com> writes:

I agree on disabling his blog since it has nothing related to Debian
on it, anymore.

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