Re: Can we improve things?

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
[...]
> Planet GNOME without a strong editorial control would probably suck.
> Just like maintainers vouch and check patches in each of their modules,
> we need to have some control on blogs getting added to planet. And
> that's Jeff's module...

Disagree, planet gnome is a front for all of gnome, as such it would
make sence to follow the NewAccounts process that is used for shell
accounts and svn access - sure it might be a lengthly process but
at least its transperent, requests are granted by a team that is
comprised of other contributors like you and me. This is much 
different than making it the domain of a single module/maintainer.

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 04:00 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: 
[...]
> It's also related to *why* people
> want to be on Planet GNOME -- for instance, it sucks that some people make
> blogs solely to be published on Planet GNOME.

Curiously, why does that suck ?

Not everybody likes to make a hobby out of writing a personal journal, some 
people who do not share this journaling hobby otoh do have interesting 
things to post to a planet with a specific audience.

How are those people's blogs less valuable ?

Cheers,
                -Tristan