Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 30: "Planet Gentoo" web log aggregator

[Ed Grimm]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Kurt Lieber wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:55:03AM +0100 or thereabouts, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> The alternative to this is not to provide our developers with weblog
>> hosting - instead, we'd get people to sign up for one of the many
>> free blogging services available elsewhere.
>
> As I've said on IRC a few times, I think it's important to offer blogs
> to our developers that don't already have them, but want to take
> advantage of the planetgentoo service.  That said, I don't see a lot
> of other devs here clamoring for this feature, so I may have been
> wrong.
>
> If there are devs out there that want to see us host blogs as part of
> GLEP 30, please speak up.  Otherwise, we may elect to dump that
> particular feature and just go with an aggregator.

What benefit would Gentoo blogs offer over the competition?  I think
there is a risk that this will needlessly divert developer resources to
duplicating the efforts of others.  I think therefore that the question
should be considered before proceeding.


I understand that Gentoo would not have the scaling issues that some
other blog sites have encountered, as it's only looking at hosting a
subset of its registered developers.  However, there's all of the other
issues, such as security and reliability, left.  One could simply
utilize an open-source blog product.  However, there are times when such
packages make changes that require more than a trivial upgrade; it's
much easier to just use an existing service.

Regarding people who want to have development/personal blog separation -
many of the blog sites allow users to have multiple accounts.  Also,
having accounts on two different blog sites isn't that difficult.

The two advantages I see for having Gentoo host developer blogs are both
security: it could allow developers to restrict access to discussions
regarding security holes with pre-release restrictions even from
non-Gentoo blog admins, and it could enable secure sharing of a user
password associtated with another aspect of the gentoo.org network (such
as the bugzilla password.)

I personally don't see the other reasons people have provided for
wanting a Gentoo blog as valid.  It's easy to find a list of free blog
sites; it's easy to get a second blog account, and frequently easy to
get one that can share the same end-user tools.  I don't see it getting
developers involved that otherwise wouldn't, unless they have trust
issues with the other blog sites out there.

Ed

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