The Fridge (Planet)

[Matthew East]

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* 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!

That's slightly missing the point because the reason the story posted on
the Fridge was taken seriously was that it was posted on the front page,
which is marketed as an authoritative news source. That should
definitely stay that way.

However, what I'm advocating is creating some more (clearly delineated)
varied areas of the Fridge, to which that would not apply. Equally, I
wouldn't dream of abolishing planet.ubuntu.com as a url (note: urls can
be made to do the right thing, like bugs.ubuntu.com), I'd just like to
see it draw closer to the Fridge.

Anyhow, this is just one of many ideas that have been floated about
improving the Fridge, and most of the others are a lot more important
and immediate (for example improving the mechanism for people to
contribute).
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