What makes a planet worth reading
Sandro
and I had a small discussion today regarding Planet Mindquarry: I manage the subscriptions that will be aggregated in Planet Mindquarry and Sandro proposed to remove two bloggers who are Mindquarry developers but do not blog about Mindquarry as such. For me this is no big thing, as honesty and diversity is what makes a planet living and worth reading. This is why Planet Apache is one of my favorite reads: It allows me to see what people of a community I respect and value think. This means everything, not only Apache specific stuff. I see who moved recently, who makes great holidays and of course who codes interesting stuff. On the other side planets like Planet PHP or Planet Gentoo have a different policy: If you want your post to be on this planet, make sure it is relevant to the topic 'Gentoo' or 'PHP'. After having been subscribed to Planet Gentoo for a while (as a Gentoo user I thought it might be interesting to follow this planet), I quickly unsubscribed because the posts where too one-topic focused to keep me interested. Sure, the posts are relevant to the topic, but are they relevant to the people?
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and I had a small discussion today regarding Planet Mindquarry: I manage the subscriptions that will be aggregated in Planet Mindquarry and Sandro proposed to remove two bloggers who are Mindquarry developers but do not blog about Mindquarry as such. For me this is no big thing, as honesty and diversity is what makes a planet living and worth reading. This is why Planet Apache is one of my favorite reads: It allows me to see what people of a community I respect and value think. This means everything, not only Apache specific stuff. I see who moved recently, who makes great holidays and of course who codes interesting stuff. On the other side planets like Planet PHP or Planet Gentoo have a different policy: If you want your post to be on this planet, make sure it is relevant to the topic 'Gentoo' or 'PHP'. After having been subscribed to Planet Gentoo for a while (as a Gentoo user I thought it might be interesting to follow this planet), I quickly unsubscribed because the posts where too one-topic focused to keep me interested. Sure, the posts are relevant to the topic, but are they relevant to the people?
I see planet software as a community tool. I read blogs to learn about people, so I read planets to learn about communities. This is why I am looking forward to Planet JBoss: I am not a JBoss user, I am not that interested in the JBoss software, but I am interested in the JBoss community, as there are some clever guys behind this software.
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