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On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 16:42, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> Um, this wasn't the request to send me example urls. I know what a blog is. I |
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> still don't see the purpose. It's always the view point of a single |
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> individual, which is pretty uninteresting in the long run. It's like having |
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> subscribed a newspaper and reading only the articles from a single author. |
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This analogy kind of sucks, frankly- a paper is providing news, doesn't |
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really matter much which author (granted the quality of the article is |
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dependant on the author). Where gentoo blogs would shine, is in giving |
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devs a way to actually expose to the community info about the |
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goofy/neato lil project they're working on. I'm not going to go to |
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alexander's blog if I want to see what's going on embedded wise, I'd go |
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to spanky/vapiers or solar's. |
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> And no, I don't have the time or interest to read multiple blogs. |
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Fair enough, don't maintain a blog then. :-) |
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People keep pointing out that this will detract resources/time that |
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could be allocated elsewhere; the only true resources that would be |
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required is hosting/maintenance of the software (infra). The decision |
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of whether it's ultimately a worthy use of resources would fall to them |
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imo. |
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If a dev wishes to maintain a blog, it's their choice, and it's their |
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time to allocate as they see fit. |
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> We have the GWN already. Why not adding a "opinion" section? |
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You're trivializing blogs by assuming it's automatically going to be |
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opinion drivel; this may be the case, but honestly, that's the author's |
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discretion. If this goes ahead, and all the blogs are is opinion's, |
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fine, we yank it (they can host their own blog if they want to expound |
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on why vim rocks and emacs sucks). |
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To head off the "if they're doing something interesting, and want to let |
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people know about it they should get it into the gwn", sure, except most |
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devs likely won't- we've had the gwn for at least a year or two, and the |
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only bits that make it into the gwn are typically notices about upcoming |
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things users need to be aware of. In my eyes, the GWN is a user |
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resource; blogs would function as a dev resource, a way to get info out |
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there for those users who might be interested. |
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Pretty much, give them a shot. If gentoo-blogs suck, we ixnay the |
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project, and a lesson learned. |
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~brian |
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