2008/5/20 Jon Stanley <jonstanley@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > Oke all that information made me change my mind a bit about it.. I still don't think it's a good idea but at least it's not a horrible as i thought it was. I still don't like it that you need to have a fedora account to be part of the planet.. seems odd to me. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
