On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Mark <markg85(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/5/19 seth vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org>:
> 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.