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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">"Planet Gentoo" web log aggregator</td> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#credits" id="id19" name="id19">Credits</a></li> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19" name="credits">Credits</a></h1> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="mailto:stuart@gentoo.org">Stuart Herbert</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id1" id="id2" name="id2">[1]</a> for the original idea</li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="mailto:alexander@gentoo.org">Alexander Plank</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id3" id="id4" name="id4">[2]</a> who also has put effort into promoting this</li> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1> |
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<p>This GLEP proposes the creation of "Planet Gentoo", a new section of the |
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gentoo.org website. It would aggregate weblogs (commonly known as "blogs") |
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written by contributing Gentoo developers onto this single page, available to |
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the public. I will refer to this new website section as "the planet" in this |
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We would also provide an installation of a weblog engine for developers that |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id21" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1> |
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<p>I'm trying to reduce the gap between the Gentoo user and development |
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communities.</p> |
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<p>Many large open source projects and software distributors have their own |
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Planet where contributors weblogs are aggregated. See the <a class="reference" href="http://www.planetplanet.org">Planetplanet</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id6" id="id7" name="id7">[3]</a> |
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homepage for a complete listing. These other aggregations appear to be |
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successful and bring their relevant communities together.</p> |
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<p>These aggregations are often quite interesting to read, since they contain a |
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variation of topics, not all of which are related to the project.</p> |
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<p>The planet would add another method of user interaction with developers, as |
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most weblogs allow readers to post comments.</p> |
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<p>Readers would get more interested in the Gentoo project, and would get a feel |
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for the personalities of the contributing developers. Although I am not |
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suggesting this should be used as an announcement tool, developers could also |
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<p>This would also benefit our development, as developers would also be able to |
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keep track of what other developers are working on and promote more |
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collaboration amongst each other.</p> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22" name="specification">Specification</a></h1> |
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<p>The proposed design is an installation of <a class="reference" href="http://www.planetplanet.org">Planetplanet</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id6" id="id8" name="id8">[3]</a> at a part of the |
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gentoo.org infrastructure, e.g. <a class="reference" href="http://planet.gentoo.org">http://planet.gentoo.org</a></p> |
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<p>We would also provide an installation of <a class="reference" href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=wordpress">Wordpress</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id10" id="id11" name="id11">[4]</a> or a similar weblogging |
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engine, for developers that do not have their own weblog or would wish to |
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move their log to an official Gentoo hosted website. This could be provided |
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at (e.g.) <a class="reference" href="http://weblogs.gentoo.org">http://weblogs.gentoo.org</a></p> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23" name="rationale">Rationale</a></h1> |
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<p><a class="reference" href="http://www.planetplanet.org">Planetplanet</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id6" id="id9" name="id9">[3]</a> is simply a weblog aggregator written in python. It is |
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executed as a cronjob and fetches content from all the weblogs it has been |
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asked to, postprocesses and aggregates them into a single html file (based on |
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This should allow for ease of integration with any existing infrastructure.</p> |
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<p>Planetplanet is configurable through a single configuration file, which lists |
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the log feed URL, real name and user name for each contributing developer.</p> |
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<p><a class="reference" href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=wordpress">Wordpress</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id10" id="id12" name="id12">[4]</a> is a weblogging engine written in PHP. It relies on MySQL for |
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<p>The planetplanet installation would fetch and aggregate developers weblogs |
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only, we would not accept non-developer logs.</p> |
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it would be closed. For this reason, some developers may choose to host their |
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log elsewhere - this is not a problem and is left to the decision of the |
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individual developers.</p> |
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<p>It is true that the addition of the planet to our website collection would add |
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developers are already overwhelmed with IRC, mailing lists, forums, and the |
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<p>It has been suggested that the activity of the planet may be an issue: |
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<p><a class="reference" href="mailto:alexander@gentoo.org">Alexander Plank</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id3" id="id5" name="id5">[2]</a> started a <a class="reference" href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/20480">gentoo-dev discussion</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id13" id="id14" name="id14">[5]</a> back in August regarding |
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this exact idea. Alexander set up a <a class="reference" href="http://penguincluster.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/BlogInterest">Planet Gentoo mini-survey</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id15" id="id16" name="id16">[6]</a> to see which |
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aggregated on the planet. At the time of writing, the survey yielded a list |
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of 21 interested developers.</p> |
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more than enough to keep the planet active and interesting. Through my |
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aggregating them on my local Planetplanet installation, I have come to the |
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conclusion that just a small quantity of active weblogs is enough to keep the |
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<p>The success of the planet will be evaluated by examining the number of hits to |
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planet will be deemed as not having met its target, and appropriate action can |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24" name="backwards-compatibility">Backwards Compatibility</a></h1> |
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<p>No issues.</p> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id25" name="reference-implementation">Reference Implementation</a></h1> |
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<p>See <a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/63160">Bug 63160</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id17" id="id18" name="id18">[7]</a> for a template file mimicking the current gentoo.org design |
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id6">[3]</a></td><td><em>(<a class="fn-backref" href="#id7">1</a>, <a class="fn-backref" href="#id8">2</a>, <a class="fn-backref" href="#id9">3</a>)</em> <a class="reference" href="http://www.planetplanet.org">http://www.planetplanet.org</a></td></tr> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id10">[4]</a></td><td><em>(<a class="fn-backref" href="#id11">1</a>, <a class="fn-backref" href="#id12">2</a>)</em> <a class="reference" href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=wordpress">http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=wordpress</a></td></tr> |
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