Frans Pop wrote: > (Luk BCCed to make sure he sees the thread.) No need, I read -project.
> It appears that today either Luk himself or someone else added a "Status" > feed to planet.d.o with one-liner info messages about what Luk's up to. I did that. > These messages have already started to annoy me as > a) there are relatively a lot of them There are only a few per day maximum from me. If there were more that reached you today it's probably because it contained the whole feed up to now. > b) they don't really provide any information, or at least no context > c) they are very simply not blog posts They are indeed no genuine blog posts, it are microblogging posts. > Although sending out such messages may be interesting to some, I also do > not think they can be a replacement for proper announcements of changes > in services or whatever. We have proper, official communication channels > for that. (But that may not be the intention anyway.) They are not meant as proper announcements as there should not be any proper announcement on a blog (unless it's a copy of something on the lists) IMHO. > Although I don't use Twitter myself, I understand that's a service that > has been set up for such messages. I don't use Twitter btw as that is closed and the company behind it decides whatever it wants, I use an open variant called identi.ca > Personally I'd like to see planet.d.o remain a pure blog aggregator. If > people want to start a Debian twit service/channel/whatever, that's of > course fine, but let's not mix dissimilar things in one service. Well I don't intend to tweet extensively, but only as a replacement for real blogging as I'm not up to writing long blog posts. > Luk: what do you think yourself? I think having a very limited amount of tweets from people that do not write long blog posts is ok, though if it's not appreciated I'll remove my feed. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
