As expected, Aarons blog resulted in a comment about the question if such a posting should be aggregated to planetkde.org.

The posting ends with the statement ‘So please deside, be a developer or a journalist’. It is a silly statement. You need to rethink what planetkde.org does. It aggragates personal blogs into a one stop site. So you do not need to keep 200 bookmarks and visit them daily to spot a new blog of someone. How can you ask Aaron to choose between being a developer (which seems to assume: no personal viewpoints) and journalist (viewpoints, but accept comments)? He is just filing his own private space and that happens to be aggregated to a place called planetkde.org.

In short, I think if you don’t like personal, non-kde related blogs on planetkde.org, just fall back to the good-old-bookmarks-system. Although I doubt you will be free from personal stuff, or strong viewpoints.

Even stronger, I like personal blogs. It makes developers more human (if that makes any sense to anyone). It gives a developer a face. So please post viewpoints, talk about food, holidays or whatever. It’s also the reason why I’m a bit reluctant about #kde-cafe vs #kde-devel. #kde-cafe being the social twin of #kde-devel. The absense of social talk on #kde-devel would make it a rather unpersonal channel with a lot of distance between developers. In practise there is social talk in there, and I understand that in a rather busy channel, the social talk can distract a lot.

So, I hope the people who complain about personal stuff on the planet think again. Some people actually like those posts.