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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:20:55PM +0100 or thereabouts, foser wrote: |
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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 don't care what metric is used to measure success as long as it's a) |
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somewhat reasonable and b) agreed upon in advance. |
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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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Huh? My requirements? If you'll read back a few posts in this thread, |
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yuo'll see that I actually suggested killing off hosting blogs ourselves. |
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However, a number of devs posted asking that we keep that part of the GLEP |
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so, for now, that's still the plan. It is not my "requirement", however. |
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--kurt |
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