[Mageia-webteam] planet.mageia.org - info/discuss about the installation

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:47, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> "post with a mageia tag" just mean nothing, that doesn't give any
> indication. If I use a blog system that do not support tag, I cannot be
> syndicated ? If I post commercial stuff ( already happened ) or insult
> people ( also already happened ), that's ok since there is a tag ?
> If this is not ok, what does happen ?

Why don't propose simple solutions as well here then?

 a. an author gives the right feed URL that does the filter on her
side (up to her to use her system of choice for that)
 b. (provided we get that implemented on our side) the feed items (RSS
2 or Atom) have a category attribute with "mageia" we filter on

And yes, it has to be filtered by the Mageia topic; off-topic stuff
(regarding the project as a whole, it's not only about technical
stuff) should not appear in such a feed. And yes, we rely on authors
benevolence in this regard.

> Another usual area of contention is "Can someone post in a foreign
> language" ?

That's an option to have locale-based planets, yes, if there are
enough of different locales in play.

> What happen if someone is no longer a peer, does it get un-syndicated ?

On request (from either side).

> What if someone or someone's post are a cause of controversy without
> being clearly immoral/illegal/etc, and people complains ?

Case by case management. People who get syndicated have to see this as
a privilege and be careful with it, as careful they are regarding the
project and the community.

Marcom team will manage this (feed syndication) and will have a final
say on issues solving.

> and that's all the recent examples I have got on my head. Not that I
> cannot find more if I seek, but I guess that's sufficient to explain
> that there is quite interesting challenge preparing.

We can't prepare for all that can go wrong. And we won't. It's not
worth the time focusing more on what can go wrong than on what can be
good.

> Should we ask the content be under a free license ( or the website would
> not mix ) ?

No. A verbatim (or more permissive) license is enough and ok.
Requesting to be syndicated is a de-facto license to at least
reproduce verbatim ones blog posts (or it makes no sense to ask to be
syndicated).

> Are we ( we == association ) responsible for this ?

No (French law). That's only a technical syndication service. Deciding
whose blogs get syndicated does not equate editing these blogs future
contents.

> Or if you do not want guideline ( which I can also understand, because
> that's usually a point of friction and so a time lose ), this should be
> made clearer.

That's what a draft is for: set first loose rules good enough to start
and adapt with time.


Romain