On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:20:55PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I read Planet Debian for the *non-Debian* posts. What somebody's apartment > in Japan looks like, what the trip to Berlin was like, etc. Maybe what > their Debian development area looks like... > > It's good to get to know our fellow developers as whole people, where Debian > is part -- but not all -- of their lives. Seconded :) My feelings about this probably are probably best illustrated by the following. Last year, I set up Planet Haskell. Being the guy who did the work, I ended up as the Planet Haskell editor and policy-maker, and the policy I set up for that planet was adapted from what I felt was the unstated Planet Debian policy: A common misunderstanding about Planet Haskell is that it republishes only Haskell content. That is not its mission. A Planet shows what is happening in the community, what people are thinking about or doing. Thus Planets tend to contain a fair bit of "off-topic" material. Think of it as a feature, not a bug. A blog is eligible to Planet if it is being written by somebody who is active in the Haskell community, or by a Haskell celebrity; also eligible are blogs that discuss Haskell-related matters frequently, and blogs that are dedicated to a Haskell topic (such as a software project written in Haskell). Note that at least one of these conditions must apply, and virtually no blog satisfies them all. (from http://planet.haskell.org/policy.html) The part about "a Haskell celebrity" was intended to cover people like Philip Wadler, one of the main designers of the language, whose current interests lie elsewhere. Similarly, I believe Ian Murdock easily qualifies as "a Debian celebrity" and as such is eligible for a Planet Debian listing :) Mutatis mutandis, I personally believe this is the correct policy for any planet. Including Planet Debian. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/
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