Stefano wrote:
the people at planet apache people (myself included) were concerned about the de-humanity of bots in a place for people.. but this is people-generated for people consumption so it fits right in, IMO.
I recall there also being a bunch of folks who didn't want Planet Apache to
be about Apache stuff, so much as Apache people.
Gump is about injected social interaction after all. When Ted is telling me what new scripting technique he's working on, the difference between apache stuff and apache people blurs massively.
If we start sending news about new software releases then I'm sure that people will start complaining, because that's not a social thing, but if we say how much ass we saved by making velocity know that jdom removed a deprecated method before either one of them made a release, well, that's the kind of signal that people want to know about social interaction.
True, it's software related, but so many things are around this apache planet :-)
I have seen some folks blog about Apache software releases (on their personal blogs), but this is going one step further (yet again). This would be a purely Apache (and/or wider community) content blog, nothing personal.
I suspect most of what raised the ire of folks before was the spam-like
batches of mutliple postings that Gump puts out, and this blog would not be
so verbose (not even close).
yep
It might be easy enough for folks to overlook, should they not want that sort of content. That said, it is pushing the boundaries of Planet Apache again, and may not be deemed appropriate. Clearly, Gump may not be in a good position to be granted leighway given the history.
Given my role in upsetting folks the first time, I'm just playing devil's advocate...
The gump noisyness is topic for a post that is coming up very soon, but it's not related to this.
-- Stefano.
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