Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Blog GLEP

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 16:42, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> Um, this wasn't the request to send me example urls. I know what a blog is. I 
> still don't see the purpose. It's always the view point of a single 
> individual, which is pretty uninteresting in the long run. It's like having 
> subscribed a newspaper and reading only the articles from a single author. 
This analogy kind of sucks, frankly- a paper is providing news, doesn't
really matter much which author (granted the quality of the article is
dependant on the author).  Where gentoo blogs would shine, is in giving
devs a way to actually expose to the community info about the
goofy/neato lil project they're working on.  I'm not going to go to
alexander's blog if I want to see what's going on embedded wise, I'd go
to spanky/vapiers or solar's.  
> 
> And no, I don't have the time or interest to read multiple blogs.
Fair enough, don't maintain a blog then. :-)

People keep pointing out that this will detract resources/time that
could be allocated elsewhere; the only true resources that would be
required is hosting/maintenance of the software (infra).  The decision
of whether it's ultimately a worthy use of resources would fall to them
imo.

If a dev wishes to maintain a blog, it's their choice, and it's their
time to allocate as they see fit.

> We have the GWN already. Why not adding a "opinion" section? 
You're trivializing blogs by assuming it's automatically going to be
opinion drivel; this may be the case, but honestly, that's the author's
discretion.  If this goes ahead, and all the blogs are is opinion's,
fine, we yank it (they can host their own blog if they want to expound
on why vim rocks and emacs sucks).

To head off the "if they're doing something interesting, and want to let
people know about it they should get it into the gwn", sure, except most
devs likely won't- we've had the gwn for at least a year or two, and the
only bits that make it into the gwn are typically notices about upcoming
things users need to be aware of.  In my eyes, the GWN is a user
resource; blogs would function as a dev resource, a way to get info out
there for those users who might be interested.

Pretty much, give them a shot.  If gentoo-blogs suck, we ixnay the
project, and a lesson learned.
 ~brian

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