On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Mark <markg85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008/5/19 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi all, >> I'm making some changes with how we build up the list of folks/rss >> feeds for the fedora planet. We're making it more self-service and a bit >> easier to maintain for the admin group (and specifically easier for me >> to put up with). For all the people currently on the planet please >> follow these instructions to make sure your feed stays on there: >> >> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/docs/planet-addition.html >> >> These instructions will be added to the wiki after the wiki migration >> happens next week. >> >> Let me know what problems you have, too. >> >> thanks, >> -sv >> > > To comment on the new rules you've made: There are no new rules, just an administrative change to allow self-service administration of the Planet. > > 1. As a fedora contributor you have to have a Fedora Account > System account, have signed the cla and be a member of at least one > other group in FAS. > > I strongly disagree on this one!! A person that writes a lot about I think the "one other group" was added, but this is due to the fact that you don't get a fedorapeople.org account until you're a member of one other group. The CLA has always been required. > fedora and thus deserves to be on the planet list doesn't need to be > registered (or wants to register) at fedora so that you people can say > your community is growing (because that WILL happen when a high fedora > person gets interviewed and gets asked about the community behind it > whether you want it or not). I personally didn't register there yet > because the registration system asks things of me that i don't want to > supply or don't feel like i need to supply them thus won't register > until it either changes or when i'm up to put the time in it to get it > all done. There's not too much time involved in getting a FAS acct these days. You need probably an SSH key (in order to use the fedorapeople services), and a click-through CLA. > 2. Next, you need to login to your fedorapeople.org account. Use > your ssh key you uploaded into the FAS to do this. > > don't quite get this one but is releated to the FAS which i disagreed > so i disagree on this one as well.. This is where the configuration happens. Your fedorapeople.org account is a shell account that all Fedora contributors receive a 150MiB quota at. So you have to login to that shell account and create a file. > > 3. You need to create a .planet file in your homedir. The content > of the file should be like this: > > Interesting.. you are asking things of the user to do (besides posting > fedora stuff) so that they can be on the planet list.. i understand > why you want it but again don't agree on this one. Why do you ask of a > user to do this? if a user has a blog on some place where he doesn't > have access to upload files (like blogspot and wordpress) then the > user, which might have very good fedora articles, can't get on the > planet.. I would drop this rule if i where you and put it in the > fedora accounting system if a user needs to register there anyway.. > You probably look for the .planet file anyway and save it in a > database. The .planet file is in your home directory on fedorapeople.org, not on your blog. Anyone can make a file in their home directory on this machine. This has been done in order to decentralize administration from Seth having to do everything, to allowing self-service (a great thing IMO). If your feed URL were to change, then you could update it yourself rather than asking for it to be done. > Don't get me wrong! i like the planet thing and look ther quite often > but dislike the rules you've just put on them (not that i want to > submit my blog). > I would be surprised if this is gonna work! seems like you simply ask > to much of a user for them to only have there blog indexed on some > kind of a planet site. Also a person that hates fedora might get on > the planet with this automated system. That's not a huge issue, content would be subject to review anyway. Feeds can be disabled if need be. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
