On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:57:39PM -0500, inode0 wrote:
> > 2010/6/18 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > It certainly would be nice if a poster's contact information was easily
> > > obtainable from their planet listing. In many cases people turn off
> > > commenting (and from experience I really can't blame them), but even if
> > > not sometimes it comes off a little aggressive / confrontational to talk
> > > to the person about the content of their blog in the public comment
> > > system.
> > >
> > > People can choose whatever name they want for their feed, and sometimes
> > > that name is not their real-life name, or is not something that can be
> > > used to look up their identity and contact information in FAS.
> >
> > I give you the "People Team" as an example. Is today's post by the
> > "People Team" not simply corporate advertising? Does it have any
> > relevance to Fedora?
> >
> > http://press.redhat.com/2010/06/21/hanging-our-hats-at-one-of-the-best-companies-to-work/
> >
> > Why is that syndicated on the planet? We can all subscribe to Red
> > Hat's press feed directly.
>
> There is a categorized feed on that site as well, since they do carry
> directly Fedora-related information:
>
> http://press.redhat.com/category/fedora/feed/
>
> John, would you agree it's useful to the community to see the official
> press releases that Red Hat does concerning Fedora itself? I'll ask
> Infrastructure to find the source account of that feed, and then I'll
> talk to the responsible individual to get this set up appropriately.
>
I could be wrong (John, please correct me if I am) but I believe he was
just pointing out what a slippery slope we'd be on if we start censoring
posts to planet. IMHO it's a dark road with no benefits to Fedora.
-Mike
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