changes at planet fedora

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 21 17:35:17 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 18:58 +0200, Mark wrote:
> 2008/5/21 Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/5/21 Mark <markg85 at gmail.com>:
> >> That basically that everyone that is a member of FAS becomes something
> >> like an Admin on the fedora planet.. they can add as much blogs as
> >> they want (and probably remove tthe ones they added as well) which
> >> just means he is an admin over the entered blog urls.
> >>
> >> I find it verry strange if this is what you guys want..
> >
> > I find this lack of trust in Fedora contributors very strange; has it
> > not occurred to you that the powers granted by cvs access, bugzilla
> > accounts and mailing list membership can do far more harm to the
> > community than a hostile blog aggregated on planet F? Admins are still
> > around to clear things out if lets say I go mad and start adding all
> > sorts of blogs that post offensive content to planet F, but until then
> > I believe that people who sign up to become a Fedora contributor do it
> > to improve Fedora and not the opposite.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > --
> > Trond Danielsen
> >
> 
> I thrust the fedora community!
> I've just seen abusive things earlier when people get to much rights
> and would hate to see that happen on planet fedora.

Encouraging speech means you sometimes have to put up with some
bullshit, too.

Instead of trying to build-in prohibitions to it I think it is best to
respond on a case-by-case issue. We've built-in configuration to let us
quickly pull problematic feeds if we so choose.


-sv





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