Sigh.
Ok, this is a little late, but...
Before I read this thread, I put a link to the Gump feed in the sidebar for Planet Apache. I also posted why I chose to do this. My biggest issue with the Gump feed was that it was drowning out (by volume) the postings by people. I personally would be happy to see project related feeds go into Gump -- one of the factors that influenced me to put the link back was a comment that Andy Oliver left on my blog regarding project related feeds. I also stated, and repeat that a feed which consisted of a summary of the gump run on a once a day basis would also be acceptable (at least to me).
I also regard a lot of what we are doing with Planet as an experiment, so I expect that we will try a bunch of things and change our minds (perhaps multiple times). I hope that either Thom or I will get the code base for Planet checked into the planet CVS soon, so that we can start some additional experiments with it. I see possible connections to some of the things Stefano has done in the past with Agora, and there's certainly a tie in with krell.
At the moment (meaning until I think of more), my personal goals for Planet are to encourage the growth of the ASF community both qualitatively (and this would include project communications) and quantitatively, and to show the outside world a bit more of a personal face.
Ted
On Jan 22, 2004, at 7:26 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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