Re: Debian planet
* David Moreno [Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:27:29 -0500]:
> On 20:05 Tue 06 Jan 2009, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> > It would be nice if you wait until we can set up some not strict but needed
> > rules about the content we want in planet/es.
> > I would like to avoid stuff like Andrés Garcés's latest post titled "Una Novia
> > en Linux Debian" in the future. And I am sure we all will agree on this...
> Well, he asked to be included on this same mailing list:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-spanish/2008/12/msg00010.html
> And nobody said anything, so I added him, trying to avoid the same
> problems that happened before where I tried to stop someone
> not-to-related to Debian and people cried and flamed about it.
> Apparently it's bad whether if people are added or not.
No, this one time it's not about whether they are more related to
Debian, or less related to Debian: Planets in Debian go by the "Don't
annoy people" rule, and that post annoyed some people (though maybe not
*that* many people, that's true).
> I thought the whole point was to not
> have a single "instance maintainer", but a distributed system where we
> all could happily live and kiss, and whoever who wanted add/remove/edit
> people, like Jörg previously stated, could do it. You do realize that
> this is just a whole bag full of bullshit, right? I mean, just to be in
> the same page.
I don't know what is this stuff about Tincho being the "instance
maintainer", and what that entails (resolving disputes?). But the SVN is
certainly open to DDs, so you have the access to add or remove people,
just as in the English planet, AFAIK.
Regarding this access, I think it would help (and I believe it works
very well for the English planet) if people with access only add people
for whom they can somehow vouch for, in the same way you only sponsor
packages for which you can vouch for. A Planet is a valuable resource,
and it's everybody's responsibility to keep it that way.
Surely, by not adding everybody who requests it unless somebody vouches
for them (and adds them themselves) we'll be missing a lot of possibly
interesting content. But our Planets are not, I believe, about content,
but about the people we work with (closely or not). For the rest, we
have http://debian-community.org/planets/es/, which is precisely what it
was created for.
Just my opinion, of course.
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