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Subject:    Re: planetkde almost unmaintained?
From:       Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-09-16 10:29:31
Message-ID: 200809161229.31812.sebas () kde ! org
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Hi Benoit,

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 04:26:24 Benoît Jacob wrote:
> 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.

We're currently working on getting a new planet set up, one with a fresh 
layout and a small team of people maintaining it. The planetplanet software 
we're currently using is quite buggy, so we'll likely be stepping away from 
that. In the meantime, we'll have to live with increased reaction times, I'm 
afraid.

> 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)...

Not necessarily, we have quite some people that don't need an SVN account 
while we definitely want them on PKO. But aside from that, a maintainance team 
should solve the problem indeed.

> 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.

+1
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