Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> > 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.

> I missed out on that vote, but FWIW, I have no problem with an aggregator,
> or even a hosted blogger for ASF committers; it's at the same level as
> http://www.apache.org/~committer/.

I was pretty sure that I recalled this whole debate from a year ago, so I
checked.  It was related to creating [community|people].apache.org.  You
might be shocked to hear that the thread consumes more than 5% of the entire
community@ archives.  That surprised me, too.

The majority is in
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&
from=316252&to=316252&count=169&by=thread&paged=false, plus
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msg
No=873.  Justin expressed his concerns in
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msg
No=805, in a reply to Nicola Ken, who in turn had said that he though it was
OK because "I don't think we are talking about complete personal websites
with blogs and such, with rants and honeymoon pictures, but about some pages
that explain what the person does, who he is, and not much more."  Justin
later made a proposal about what he did think was acceptable:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msg
No=808.

My earlier comments came from what I recalled as the consensus from that
discussion.  The gist of it was that having relatively bland and ASF
specific content on an ASF page was fine, and that people should use
external URLs to reference their more personal content, which is what the
Wiki has: a list of external URLs.  That was the compromise.

In any event, opinions may change, but I did remember us going over this
territory 13 months ago.  Should I apologize for having a good memory?  ;-)

When Thom suggested planetapache.org on IRC, I was +1 for the idea, since
that doesn't appear to conflict with the concerns that were raised a year
ago.  In fact, if everyone who didn't want truly personal content on an
apache.org domain last year is happy that planetapache.org is sufficiently
disjoint then, as far as I'm concerned, it could even host personal pages,
rather than just aggregate.

        --- Noel


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