On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Reed Loden <[email protected]> wrote: > The Planet team has always felt that Planet is meant to encompass > whatever people wish to share from their blogs, not just Mozilla stuff. > We want people in the community to showcase their lives, not just their > Mozilla work. While most people only share a specific tag/category that > is Mozilla-related, that is by no means required. When a person is > added to Planet, he/she overall is added, not just some specific blog > category/tag. As such, people are welcome to post whatever they like > (within reason, though generally just so long as it's not illegal, > spam, etc.).
While I appreciate this goal, I can't help but feel that it's problematic with respect to the actual way Planet is used in the Mozilla community. ISTM Planet is the one most powerful avenue for reaching a large community of Mozillians. It's therefore extremely valuable as a channel for communicating new projects or features, requesting feedback, and discussion that requires large amounts of participation from the community. See the MemShrink blog posts for a quite successful demonstration of this. With the current size of the community, I think the more diverse notion of posts that is natural for smaller planets doesn't make sense anymore. We need Planet as a community communication channel, and that it means it cannot also be the watercooler thing where everyone posts whatever pops into their head at the time, because Planet is, in a way, required reading in order to keep up with what's happening at Mozilla, and having a low S/N ratio is bad for that. So personally I think the policy should change so that (a) non-Mozilla-related posts are discouraged from the main Planet (although there could be a separate planet with all the non-Mozilla-related posts included, for those who want it), and possibly (b) rethink the separation of the main and projects planets. Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
