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On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 20:56 -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: |
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> Indeed it would be. I finally took a look at planet.gentoo.org, and I |
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> see that the content, at least on the main page, is largely personal in |
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> nature and unrelated to Gnome development. I simply do not see it being |
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> useful for there to be an official place for such content. |
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The most useful part besides the news page for anyone really following |
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the gnome project is the planet page, it creates a sense of community by |
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allowing devs to interact in public & keep them up-to-date on what |
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everyone is working on. Yes, there's also some personal stuff posted |
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there, but that actually brings the developer closer as a person. It's a |
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plus for the devs & the users alike. |
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Anyway, I really don't see what the whole deal is about. Wiki's are |
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different things, meant for a different purpose, why does it even get |
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discussed ? A planet is a place to bring the blogs together that are |
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already there (and there are quite a few), nothing more, nothing less. |
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See it as a service to the users that they don't have to figure out |
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where every single devs blog is. Nobody is forced to read the planet, |
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nobody is forced to blog for the planet. Just take as it is and see |
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where it goes from there, without judging it by appearance & first |
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impressions without knowing what is about. |
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- foser |
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