[Mageia-webteam] planet.mageia.org - info/discuss about the installation

Mon Jan 31 18:36:25 CET 2011

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 18:19, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le lundi 31 janvier 2011 à 16:50 +0100, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+> No, I do not say that using a tag is not good on a technical level. I
+> say that the definition should be IMHO clearer than "using a tag". Ie,
+> what do we expect on the tag.
+
+For RSS 2.0/Atom feeds (required), the item (so the blog post) must
+have a "mageia" category at least (case insensitive).
+
+> Well, to me, this look like the job of communication more than
+> marketing, but maybe I mistake the purpose of the marketing team.
+
+Both teams are merged into one for the time being; so tasks/purposes
+are interleaved for the time being. Should it grow, we'll see.
+
+>> The board always has a final say, that's a given. But that should
+>> still be exceptional and repeating it over and over won't entrust
+>> teams on themselves.
+>
+> If we entrust the marketing team to do conflict management and editorial
+> control, it should be clearly said.
+
+It has been said from the first day that, for the sake of subsidiarity
+and relevance, each team has a say on its own matters. That's what
+trust and delegation is about: we expect teams to self-manage and
+manage their work well.
+
+Planet is a communication matter, it is handled by the communication
+team (here, marcom as it is interleaved). All the rest (webteam,
+sysadmin) in this regard has only a provider role.
+
+Now, as has been said too, should a team-level decision raise issues
+on its own, it escalates to Council, then to Board, if necessary.
+Nothing new.
+
+> Now, if I wanted to do it, I would still aim for having the minimal
+> requirement of maintainability. People ( as long they have a email
+> alias, ie are peers ) decide what they blog, how they blog, etc. Some
+> kind of wiki way applied to feed aggregations. I would even push to
+> delegate the feeds in ldap so people can change themselves without
+> anyone intervention.
+
+Patch CatDap for that, then. Maybe. But it looks more complex than it
+should be for the time being. Later maybe.
+
+> First, I would try to clearly articulate the goal of the website. Having
+> "a regular stream of news about Mageia" is not the same as "discovering
+> the life of contributors". For example, the aforementioned chocolate
+> cake pictures is likely not ok if the goal is to speak only of Mageia.
+
+You're mixing several things. The "website" as such has several roles;
+the planet is one tiny role among others in the "self-recognition &
+promotion of contributors thoughts" part.
+
+> This allows to know if we want someone see the word fuck or not.
+
+I don't care about setting rules for that - that's the comm'team job
+and I believe that for the beginning, this can be left to authors'
+common sense. And we will see how it evolves. Saying that it should
+first relate to Mageia is enough. Comm'team will be free and welcome
+to chart it otherwise (now or later).
+
+> We may not want to have strong political comments on the frontpage of the
+> project ( As said, I personally wouldn't care, but I guess that's not a
+> universal view ).
+
+The planet won't be on the frontpage (where only official news of the
+project will be, speaking of news feeds), it's a separate page, on its
+own first, of which posts may be syndicated somewhere in a "news" or
+"community" area in the website.
+
+Romain
+