hey ...
There are two related conversations on advocacy-discuss involving blogs
as aggregated on http://planet.opensolaris.org/ and
http://opensolaris.org/os/blogs/ and how we decide who gets listed
where. Here are the conversations:
* http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=65125&tstart=0
* http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64995&tstart=0
I bring this up on website-discuss because I think we will eventually
have to consider how we handle blogs as we scale with the new site and
with new users. Glynn's Planet focuses mostly on the core people
involved in the project, whereas the main OpenSolaris blog page is open
to anyone who registers, but I have to add them manually. We could
automate that, but then on top of that each CG and Project has its own
blog aggregator so we'd have to automate that part too.
Here's my issue: we already have over 100K users on the site and will
scale a great deal more with Indiana, so we can expect many more blogs
to be listed on http://opensolaris.org/os/blogs/. How many can we
reasonably list? And what's the value of having potentially thousands of
blogs listed on one page with no real organizing mechanism?
One of the suggestions I gave Glynn is that he may want to consider
limiting his aggregator to Core Contributors as one way of focusing on
the people directly involved in the project, and CCs would give him a
certain bar from which to work if he had other requirements. We could
consider a similar notion with http://opensolaris.org/os/blogs/ with
perhaps a requirement that people have at least Contributor grants. That
would limit the numbers, but we'd have to grandfather in the current
blog population, so for a while there would be a mix of everyone, not
just Contributors. But I'm also questioning the need for
http://opensolaris.org/os/blogs/ going forward. If people are ok with
one page growing to list thousands of people, I suppose that's fine, but
I already find it of little value. If I'm looking for blogs on DTrace or
ZFS or IPS or Indiana, I wouldn't go to
http://opensolaris.org/os/blogs/. I'd go to those specific projects and
communities to find blogs on those topics.
I like how the site offers blog aggregators to each collective because
it's a natural organizing mechanism. And I would want that feature
continued as we add new collectives (User Groups, SIGs, etc), but as we
grow I'm not sure there's a need for the main blogs page anymore. Agree?
Disagree?
Jim
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http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
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