The Fridge (Planet)

[Paul Sladen]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Matthew East wrote:
> * Jeff Waugh: 
> > <quote who="Matthew East">
> > > At the moment it seems to me that there are too many community websites,

Many is good.  Distributed is good.  Single point of failure is bad.  We've
already had this, remember...

> > Planet is kind of a special case though,
> I don't really see Planet as a special case myself. I accept that most
> projects have a planet,

To me, planet it something different.  'planet.projectname.com' is where the
developer's personal lives hang out.  It's a separate drop-in piece of
software running on its own drop-in URL.

It doesn't have any authenication requirements---except maybe that LP could
be extended to have blog-URLs and then the list could be generated from
membership of 'ubuntu-planet-bloggers'.

I'm not keen on seeing planet be apart of The Fridge---we already have had a
case where a community story posted on El Fridge was taken as an offical
outlet;  and the content that pops up on Planet is considerably more varied!

	-Paul
-- 
High on a tall bridge, surrounded by noisy lorries.  Southampton, GB