On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Roman Strobl <Roman.Strobl at sun.com> wrote: > Amit k. Saha wrote: >> >> All is good. but the criteria seems to certainly stricter than >> NetBeans or MySQ for example. It seems that they are happy to let any >> particular enthusiastic person's blog added to their planet, perhaps >> because they think that even they *are* contributing to the community. >> > > In case of NetBeans our webmaster was asking people blogging about NetBeans > to create a special category (and a new feed) on their blog for posts > related to NetBeans. Only this category appeared on planet.netbeans.org (not > the whole blog). Obviously this didn't work with everyone because some blog > engines don't allow you to create extra feeds but it helped us avoid > personal posts and thus keep the noise ratio lower. > > Currently planet.opensolaris.org seems to be syndicating whole blogs which > means a lot of personal posts appear there. I am not sure if it's good or > bad, just saying what we've been doing with NetBeans. So we allowed more > people in (the bar for participation was probably lower) but we had some > rules about which content should appear on the Planet.
Well, 'category' specific feeds can always be asked for ! Then, the personal posts won't appear and only the Solaris/OpenSolaris posts will be up on the Planet. -Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitksaha.blogspot.com Skype: amitkumarsaha
