On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 10:47 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote: > On 4/18/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well, I'd like to ask what purpose we are up to with fedoranews.org. > > What does it do what we can't do at fedoraproject.org? Is it outside of > > the scope from the legal rules of the Fedora Project? > > > > <disclaimer: personal feelings involved> > > > > BTW, the reason why I dislike fedoranews.org are articles like this: > > http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Installing_NVIDIA_drivers_manually_on_FC4 > > > > (that's a improved version -- the first one was even worse). There are a > > lot better ways to install the drivers that are more clean. See > > > > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/3rdPartyVideoDrivers > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01178.html > > > > Also it encourages people sometimes to enable repos that are not > > compatible with Core and Extras. > > > > </personal feelings involved> > > > > CU > > thl > > -- > > Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Wow. What did I miss here? I just saw this email with subject "fedoranews.org" > > It sounds like someone doesn't like the site just because a few > contributors wrote some articles in the past and not happy about. > > Please note, this is a community website much like community forum > such as fedoraforum.org where people can write *whatever* they like > and yes, sometimes I let them write an article about *forbidden* item > by Fedora Project. > > Again, this is the *past* and now that Fedora Project is considering > "blessing" our site officially, there will be some changes. For one > thing, there will be more "moderations" before the artlces get > published. In other words, a Review Process will be used among > moderators before we publish. > > However, the site will remain the status of "Community" site where any > community member can write just about anything they want if they feel > it will benefit the community. > > If you are concerned about the content of our site, I invite you to > become a moderator and help me to maintain a quality site for Fedora > Community. We should also note that people on the planet aggregator can pretty much write what they please as well. The fact that Thomas is setting up an editorial board is a good thing, and it will hopefully increase the quality of the articles in general. Personally, I'd also love to see a news site free of encumbered software cruft, but that to me is an editorial question. As long as the availability of this information is not a legal problem, it's an issue for the community. As with any news site, I'm pretty sure at fn.o people are free to comment, trackback, etc. (in addition to blogging -- planet anyone?) with suggestions, issues, or complaints. I suspect there will end up being some debate through those channels, and I hope it's conducted in a respectful and reasonable manner. I suspect the reaction of the community will determine what tack is adopted by the fn.o editorial board. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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