Am Dienstag, den 18.04.2006, 10:47 -0700 schrieb Thomas Chung: > 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> > > > Wow. What did I miss here? I just saw this email with subject "fedoranews.org" No, I think this one was the most important for you. > It sounds like someone /me > doesn't like the site just because a few > contributors wrote some articles in the past and not happy about. yes > Please note, this is a community website much like community forum > such as fedoraforum.org where people can write *whatever* they like That's okay -- but I have problems if that goes directly into the Red Hat magazine. > and yes, sometimes I let them write an article about *forbidden* item > by Fedora Project. "*forbidden* item by Fedora Project." is not my problem -- but there are better ways to install the nvidia drivers and most of us know that repo mixing is problematic. That's what I don't like. To extend above disclaimer: I'm not only involved in Fedora Extras but also working a lot for a well known 3rd party repo that extends Fedora Core/Extras and provides the Nvidia drivers. > 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. Okay. > 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. Well, I can try to do that. I'll write a private mail with some things that probably need to be discussed first -- this is going off topic here. CU thl -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>