On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 7:29 AM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey folks. I thought I would open a discussion about fedoraplanet and > possibly some plans for it. > > Right now: > > fedoraplanet.org runs on people02.fedoraproject.org (aka fedorapeople). > To add a blog/rss feed you have to login there and edit your .planet > file, then scripting pulls all those .planet files and tries to fetch > all the feeds and then serves them up at http://fedoraplanet.org. > It uses a app called 'venus' to do this. venus is written in very old > python2 and very very dead upstream. > > We run into the following problems with it: > > * Sometimes it gets stuck and just stops processing until it's killed. > * It's serving on a http site, which causes people to ask us to make it > https, but that would just change the errors because many feeds it pulls > are still http since they were added back before letsencrypt existed. > * We have a handy 'website' field in our new account system, but aren't > using it at all. > * The .planet parsing is poor, any number of things can cause it to > break. > > We have two open tickets on it: > - https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10383 (upgrade to pluto, > a ruby based, but maintained thing) > - https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10490 > ( planet not served via ssl) Which I am just going to close now. > > So, I can think of a number of options and would love everyone who has > thoughts on it to chime in: > > 1. Do nothing. Venus "works" and .planet files are cool and retro. > > 2. Switch to pluto and use account system 'website' fields of > contributors. We could likely shove it in openshift and serve it > directly from there to avoid fedorapeople entirely. > (This would likely break anyone who has multiple feeds in there) > > 3. Switch to something better/bigger. I would think (although I don't > know) that there might be something that would not only aggregate rss > feeds for contributors, but perhaps mastodon/twitter/whatever also. > > 4. Planets are old and tired, just drop the entire thing. People can > maintain their own rss lists. #4 here has my vote -- i personally stopped reading RSS feeds daily on July 1, 2013. Also, not sure what value the planet provides to the community. its a bit of a hit and miss firehose sometimes. --ryanlerch > > 5. Planets are old and tired, just drop the entire thing. > But also, get our social media people to maintain contributor / > interesting lists. ie, the fedoraproject twitter account could maintain > a list of 'fedora contributors' and 'fedora packagers' or whatever. > > 6. Switch to pluto as in 2, but also setup some curators. Have a > 'firehose' of all feeds, but the main fedora planet would be just > curated things that are known to be related to fedora and not off topic > or unrelated. > > 6. Get someones (not it!) to take in all the > twitter/facebook/mastodon/blog posts/rss feeds and post some kind of > curated round up every week or something. > > 7. Your brilliant idea here! > > So, thoughts? this is not at all urgent, but we should end up doing > something with it sometime. :) > > kevin > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list -- infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to infrastructure-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list -- infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to infrastructure-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
