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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    planetkde almost unmaintained?
From:       Benoît_Jacob <jacob () math ! jussieu ! fr>
Date:       2008-09-16 2:26:24
Message-ID: 200809160426.25030.jacob () math ! jussieu ! fr
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Hi,

It seems that we have a problem: planetkde seems almost unmaintained. My blog 
disappeared 3 weeks ago, so I can't blog on Eigen (released beta1 today). 
Carsten kindly blogged for me, but guess what, his blog too disappeared from 
planetkde. Aurélien told me on IRC that his blog disappeared two monthes ago, 
which is why we don't see updates on Gwenview anymore.

Chris is probably too busy, which I can understand, so perhaps it's time to 
ask for new maintainers to join? I know that Jonathan is already helping, but 
he said only Chris can re-add my blog to planetkde.

Let me admit that personnally I can't help (no web skills, no time). Still I 
was thinking that there was value in stating the problem so we don't keep 
postponing dealing with it. PlanetKDE is a rather central part of KDE life 
these days. So if nobody has time then let's look for the solution that 
incurs minimal maintainance effort. There has to be a way of setting up a 
planet that doesn't "forget" blogs every now and then.

Random thought: if the list of feeds was a file in SVN, then the planet could 
be self-administered by users (who are always SVN account holders)...

Random thought 2: it would be also great to resurrect worldwide.kde.org. 
Again, if the list of geographic locations was a file in SVN, things would be 
a lot simpler.... Experience clearly shows that this kind of website suffers 
chronically from lack of maintainership so it'd be better to let each SVN 
account holder do his own part of the administration job, instead of asking 
one single person to do it for everybody...

Cheers,
Benoit

P.S. A big kudos to Chris for all the work he did for PlanetKDE which
is how I got excited by KDE development.
 
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