OpenShift's Planet PaaS - Need Help and Pointers

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 17:30, Jimmy Guerrero <jguerrer at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Over here in OpenShift -land we are looking at standing up a PaaS-centric
> blog aggregation site called Planet PaaS, similar to:
>
> http://planet.fedoraproject.org/
> http://planet.mysql.com/
> http://planet.jboss.org/
>
> We'd like to downplay the commercial stuff, and keep it focused on PaaS as
> it relates to open source and development frameworks, middleware and
> languages.
>
> We've been approached by some news/media outlets to co-brand a Planet PaaS
> site with us, but I'd prefer to have no overt commercial interests dominate
> the site. I'd also like to be impartial. Meaning yeah, VMWare and other
> competitors might turn up there, and that's ok as long as it is
> PaaS/OSS/Developer-centric.
>
> Anybody on this list interested in this project? I have some budget to make
> this happen. If you have any leads, please point me in the right direction.

In the end what will be needed is a central box that people can
add/subtract items from. Currently Fedora project does this with a
server where a person logs in and drops a .planet file down and venus
is run every X minutes over the aggregate of .planets to see what is
updated


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Then it is a matter of people
a) Getting a Fedora account
b) Signing the CPA
c) Getting accepted into an appropriate FAS group.
d) Logging into fedorapeople.
e) Creating the file
f) Follow our low-standing rules of use.

For your side, you would need to look at
a) Some sort of account system
b) Some sort of rules of  use.
c) Some server

Does that help from a mile-high point of view?



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