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On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 23:08 +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:50:52PM +0000 or thereabouts, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> > +The success of the planet will be evaluated by examining the number of hits to |
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> > +the planet. 3 months after launch, one weeks worth of logs will be recorded, |
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> > +and hits will be counted. If the hit count for that week is below 1000, the |
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> > +planet will be deemed as not having met its target, and appropriate action can |
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> > +be taken if the planet appears to be harming our image. |
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> This is fine with me, but I thought we had decided to ask the users and use |
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> their response as a more accurate gauge of its success? |
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Define 'the users' and 'their response' ? Success is when enough people |
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check back on a daily basis to see whats going on in Gentoo land. Hits i |
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find a somewhat awkward measure, i assume it means all hits : to the |
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page & to the rss feed. The second also generates hits for ppl who not |
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necessarily read it and/or who update frequently (several times a day) |
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and as such is not very reliable in itself. |
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Last but not least i see it also as a way of developer communications, |
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ideally it gives a broad overview where things are heading. As such mere |
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user interest might not even be all that relevant. |
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I still think your requirements make it more difficult to implement this |
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than it should be. I still see no reason why Gentoo itself should |
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provide blog space, it only makes matters more difficult regarding |
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developers leaving, etc. Devs who blog already do so outside of Gentoo, |
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devs who don't aren't en masse gonna start now. |
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