The PMC for planet voted (Thom and Ted) and decided to remove it ;-)
Planet is a community aggregator, not a project status aggregator. Recall also, that planet isn't an apache project, it is Thom's pet project. There was a big fuss about making sure it wasn't able to be construed as official in any way shape or form (note the continued lack of a feather, etc).
To extend the community focus for evaluating project health: Apache can be considered to be made up of people, not projects. The people happen to work on projects together and those projects form a focus for communities. This runs counter to initial perceptions but is not a bad way of viewing it.
-Brian
On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:26 AM, Adam R. B. Jack wrote:
IIRTC (bottom): Thom May removed the Jakarta Gump entry stating "This really
is not what planet is about". Now Thom might be correct, it is an opinion,
but I don't recall a debate on the worthiness of Gump, nor on exactly
what/whom Planet Apache is meant to be for.
Is Planet Apache somehow about his travel experiences
[http://blog.clearairturbulence.org/blog/life/funwithmaps.html] (not bad,
hardly Magellan ;), but not about the health of inter-relationships of
Apache projects? Interesting. Sure, Gump is an automated feed, but is it so
inappropriate?
So, now what? Do I just add it back, or what? Maybe Planet Apache needs some
PMC control...
FWIIW: My observation is that Planet Apache is (at best) going to be only a
small percentage on Apache (even on OSS) topics, and it will be highly
verbose, and with high noise content ... it is the nature of that sort of
simple aggregation. [I'd like to see some form of categories utilized, so it
could filter on stuff that said it was Apache related, but I don't see that
as likely, if even technically available across tools/feeds.] I see Planet
Apache (as it stands today) as a way to get a flavour of an author, who has
some association w/ Apache, to see if I wish to add them to my own
aggregator or not. As such, I see no harm in Jakarta Gump participating.
Gump at least only ever talks about Apache stuff...
regards,
Adam
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