On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:05:23PM +0000, Luke Sheldrick wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, Luke, Thanks for your post. I'm replying with my scant knowledge and opinion; this email address goes to a team of folks, most of whom have way more knowledge than me, as well as more worthy opinions, so read my reply as just some thoughts on the situation. > Anyway you guys can filter the planet, maybe a separate RSS feed, for > just English blogs? The Fedora planet is self-service, in that contributors add themselves to the one planet. It seems to me that we would have to go back to each person to identify a separate, language-specific planet in their configuration. Otherwise, we'd have to write some automagic in the planet application to detect languages? So, we could create an "English only" planet/feed and ask that people add themselves to that, as well. It would grow slowly over time. Some people who write in multiple languages in a single post could use for their English containing posts. But it looks to be a lot of work to do a split manually without contributor intervention. > Most other planets have dedicated foreign language planets, whilst I > don't totally agree with this, I'm also spending a lot of time skipping > past blogs I can't read on the Fedora Planet... Just as a point of difference, I enjoy the multiple languages and seeing what others are up to even if I can't read the post. Often I can get a gist of what the subject is about, from personal photography to an app review. Sometimes I see a post that looks interesting enough to get auto-translated for further reading. From previous discussions of this topic, there are people who are put-off by the multiple languages, and there are those who are not. Short of adding automagic language filtering in planet itself, I don't see a way to make both groups happy. We're already pretty far down the pathway we have now, so we have to ponder if it's worth the non-trivial effort? - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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