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

[Michael Scherer]

Le lundi 31 janvier 2011 à 09:55 +0100, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :

>  b. (provided we get that implemented on our side) the feed items (RSS
> 2 or Atom) have a category attribute with "mageia" we filter on

I assume the goal is automated filtering by reader and tools ?
( cause, that's not the way I do use my feedreader, but I guess some
others may work like this ).

If this is a desirable feature ( and that's IMHO a good idea ), then
this must be supported by the tool ( or decide to patch it, but I think
we previously agreed to avoid that when possible ). So while I have
nothing against moonmoon ( and not because the author is from Metz ), it
may not have this feature.  

> And yes, it has to be filtered by the Mageia topic; off-topic stuff
> (regarding the project as a whole, it's not only about technical
> stuff) should not appear in such a feed. And yes, we rely on authors
> benevolence in this regard.

Well, this has to be clearly said. That's not the same policy on all
planet, and I think that having a tag is not enough ( see Adam W post on
planet Mandriva, some people have seen them too off topic, but it has a
tag Mandriva nonetheless ).

> > Another usual area of contention is "Can someone post in a foreign
> > language" ?
> 
> That's an option to have locale-based planets, yes, if there are
> enough of different locales in play.

Well, if I post in french ( which I often do ), should it be encouraged,
refused, accepted ? I have no opinion on this again ( and do not plan to
be syndicated at all ), but that's usually something that cause
discussion, and I think it is better to not waste people time by at
least anticipating now the issue. 

> > What if someone or someone's post are a cause of controversy without
> > being clearly immoral/illegal/etc, and people complains ?
> 
> Case by case management. People who get syndicated have to see this as
> a privilege and be careful with it, as careful they are regarding the
> project and the community.
> 
> Marcom team will manage this (feed syndication) and will have a final
> say on issues solving.

Marcom, marketing or communication ?

( AFAIK, even with talk of merging them, they are still separate, no ? )

Shouldn't the board have the final say ( as one of the duty is conflict
management ) ?


> > and that's all the recent examples I have got on my head. Not that I
> > cannot find more if I seek, but I guess that's sufficient to explain
> > that there is quite interesting challenge preparing.
> 
> We can't prepare for all that can go wrong. And we won't. It's not
> worth the time focusing more on what can go wrong than on what can be
> good.

Of course, we can't prepare for all that will goes wrong. But I think
that a few concepts are sufficient to prepare for what went wrong on
other projects. 

We can hardly call "community feed aggregation" a new field of
experimentation, given the fact that it is a common practice in free
software since years. And we can also take for granted that unspecified
things will likely be interpreted differently. 

So just giving a few clear guidelines now about what should and
shouldn't be syndicated will likely prevent losing lots of time later. 

-- 
Michael Scherer