To planet or not to planet
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.
The administrator of Planet Gnome specifically refuses to put filtered feeds on there, because he wants Planet Gnome to be about the developers and not just the development.
I have my post filtered with a KDE category, but I put anything I think would be of any interest to readers of the planet in that category.
I really love to see what other devels are doing/eating/watching/…, where they travel, how the feel about their politics, etc…
As an homeworker software engineer, knowing more than just few lines of code from the person I talk with is a great advantage for a discussion, and a pleasure.
And as with other devels we share the same love for OSS, it is highly possible that we share other things (music, …), so discovering new things that way is just fine :)
Imo Aaron is fundamentally wrong in his first assumption of the post. I wish Ramsees a better comprehension next time. Aaron is in the spotlight mainly because of his KDE activities. If he gets abused by foreigners unknown to him, it s probably because of him being well known through KDE. So the his blogpost is related to KDE. I disagree with Aaron removing his post from the planet, it s KDE related. Oh, and yes, he is well within his rights to remove comments from his blog. And now on to shaking an angry fist from a distance. brilliant image btw. hugs.
I stopped my non-software development posts being added to the Planet because I was fed up of the trolls that would whine that this post “shouldn’t be on the Planet” because of a religious/political/non-OSS post.
It’s a real shame the KDE developer community, which is filled with some of the coolest software engineers I’ve met, seems to attract such idiotic trolls to read the Planet.
Hi Mike,
You should ignore them and re-enable the posts. As you can see here and on Aarons blog comments; some people do like them. I appreciated your BT stories, even the once where you explain why you don’t like them anymore.
Tom, see revision 864518 and thanks :)
I feel relieved with your words, as I just refrained from posting to my blog completely because it seemed all PlanetKDE syndicated blogs should be KDE-only and I had not much to say about KDE at all these last months (meatspace took priority), but interacting with the community, even if saying some bs from time to time would be refreshing.
Now I feel a bit freer than I was before reading your post. Thank you. :)
I have been reading (as a non developer/contributor) the planet for years now and I truly enjoy it. Reading the human side as well as the tech (nerd) side.
I don’t always agree with views posted by whoever, but that’s the whole point of views. They are personal, they are opinions, they are valuable.
And to Aaron and Mike, hey, trolls are trolls are trolls. Whether you go left, right or down the middle, it doesn’t make a friggin’ difference. Trolls do what they do best. Whine and bitch about anything just for the whining and bitching. So delete them, ignore them, but don’t let them bother you.
I hope I can read all your girls and guys views for many years to come
Why not assign tags to every blog post and filter them for every reader as he wish to?
If someone wants to read posts related only to tech KDE – just set your view.