Planet Fedora guidelines?

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 18:43:06 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:01:16AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:55:28 -0400,
>   Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 11:31 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > > - a FAS account aging requirement for posting rights (maybe a separate
> > > planet that, if you hae a mentor, they can watch and you can graduate
> > > from? For example new ambassadors could be added to an ambassadors
> > > planet first..... if there is some faux paus people reading will better
> > > know who the poster is and more easily know how to contact them etc)
> > 
> > I'm curious about this one, because CLA+1 strikes me as being better
> > than an aging requirement. In what cases are new contribs getting +1
> > without some form of mentorship or input from the community?
> 
> That was the only one on the list that didn't seem to be clearly a good
> idea. I think this issue is better solved by having better documentation
> on how to use (particularly using tagging) and what the expectations are
> for Fedora Planet.
> 
> I think restricting people to a limited feed during a probationary period
> is more likely to do harm by discouraging people, than prevent harm by
> preventing oopses.

There are some guidelines on our Planet page on the wiki:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet

I pointed these out in another post as well.  I'm curious to know if
the sysadmins/web team has had to consult these since the FUDCon in
Toronto, after which event they were written and approved.

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