On Jan 8, 2004, at 8:34 AM, Thom May wrote:
On 8 Jan 2004, at 16:26, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
As I said to you on IRC, I obviously have more faith that the average person who hits apache.org isn't completely stupid...Many other open source projects, including Debian, the Linux Kernel developers, and Mono, are aggregating the RSS feeds of their blogging contributors and putting them up on a web site. This is something that would be good for the ASF to do as well
We have so far voted to not create an ASF blog because we do not want the
perception of the ASF approving the content of the blogs. This does not
seem any different to me. I understand that some people feel that we are
just "syndicating" content from elsewhere, but that is a difference with
little distinction in the mind of the reader.Ok, I'm quite happy to register and host planetapache.org; whether or not we want to point it at minotaur is more or less irrelevant I think, but I'm open to argument either way.
I would be -1 for aggregating external content on an official ASF site.
Disclaimers or no disclaimers, it is going to be perceived as ASF content.
Having it aggregated on an unofficial, ancillary, site would be OK with me,
if someone wanted to provide that resource.
I don't know about Thom, but I'm tired of arguing the political and bureaucratic issues on stuff like this, and I debated whether to even raise the idea because I knew it was going spend weeks in committee.
Let's just register planetapache.org and be done with it. To me it smacks of arrogance for us to believe that we are somehow more legitimate that good projects like Debian, Mono, KDE, and others and that somehow our holy image will be besmirched by some loud mouth on a blog.
Next someone will insist that this has to go through the incubator.
-Thom
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