proposal for the board: planet fedora != fedora people

Greg DeKoenigsberg greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 21:22:45 UTC 2010


> I think it's overkill - but that's just my opinion, of course.


Also my opinion, that I thank you for expressing.  :)


> What
> is our percentage rate or rate of "incidents?"  If we were having one
> a day, or one a week, I think that would be one thing.  And despite
> any guidelines we have, or boxes people need to check - mistakes will
> be made, and I'd venture to guess those mistakes would occur at
> approximately the same rate that "incidents" currently do. Worse, the
> mistake would probably be made more often such that people would
> forget to tag really good content with the Fedora tag.  So what do we
> gain? We have a main page, per the original proposal, that has far
> less content, probably content missed because people aren't
> remembering to tag things, and a separate page highlighting non-Fedora
> things that community members are writing about - some of which are
> VERY interesting, and really, make us feel more like a community than
> a bunch of Fedora-writing-robots- which just winds up getting not read
> anywhere near as much as they would as if, say, things stayed as they
> are currently?
>

+1.  This pretty much sums up my thoughts.  A policy change that is unlikely
to have the "positive" effects some hope for, and may have negative effects
that Robin describes.

--g
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